FAVORABLE OUTCOME OF SEVERE RIGHT HEART-F AILURE AFTER BIPULMONARY TRANSPLANTATION

Authors
AMBROSI P NOIRCLERC M WERNERT F BACH S BERNARD PJ LUCCIONI R
Citation
P. Ambrosi et al., FAVORABLE OUTCOME OF SEVERE RIGHT HEART-F AILURE AFTER BIPULMONARY TRANSPLANTATION, Archives des maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux, 87(7), 1994, pp. 945-947
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Archives des maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux → ACNP
ISSN journal
00039683
Volume
87
Issue
7
Year of publication
1994
Pages
945 - 947
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-9683(1994)87:7<945:FOOSRH>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
The authors report a long term success of bipulmonary transplantation in a 15 year old girl with cystic fibrosis and respiratory failure com plicated by severe right heart failure. The operation did not cause an y particular problems. After transplantation, the clinical signs of ri ght ventricular failure and echocardiographic right ventricular dilata tion regressed in less than one week. The right ventricular hypertroph y also regressed. Echocardiography shows no abnormality after 5 years' follow-up.