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Heart transplantation after repair of postinfarction ventricular septal defect
C Blanche1, I Aleksic, L S Czer
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA.
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
A 68 year-old man underwent surgical repair of a ventricular septal defect following an acute myocardial infarction. Recurrent interventricular septal rupture with significant left-to-right shunting led to progressive deterioration in cardiac function and intractable heart failure. The patient underwent orthotopic heart transplantation three months after his initial operation, and he is clinically well sixteen months after transplantation.