Extracorporeal membrane oxygenator assistance as "bridge" to combined heart and liver transplantation

Transplant Proc. 2006 Nov;38(9):3004-5. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.08.129.

Abstract

Heart transplantation is accepted worldwide as the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage heart disease who have a life expectancy of less than 1 year. Mechanical Cardiac assistance might be necessary as a bridge to transplantation and, in selected cases, to multiorgan transplantation. We report a successful case of a 15-day extracorporeal membrane oxygenator assistance as bridge to combined heart and liver transplantation in a young man with dilated cardiomyopathy and chronic hepatitis C virus infection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / surgery*
  • Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / therapy
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation*
  • Heart Transplantation*
  • Humans
  • Liver Transplantation*
  • Male
  • Ventricular Dysfunction / physiopathology