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Donor/recipient aorta size mismatch in heart transplantation: a technical alternative
P H Deleuze1, J P Mazzucotelli, C Benvenuti
1Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Henri Mondor Hospital, Creteil, France.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
A technical alternative is proposed to enable transplantation in cases of considerable size mismatch between donor and recipient aorta: interposition of a Dacron graft of intermediate diameter. This procedure was performed in a 56-year-old patient weighing 75 kg in whom a heart from a 40-kg donor was implanted.