[Heart transplantation after corrective surgery of a congenital heart disease. Surgical technical problems]

Orv Hetil. 2011 Jan 2;152(1):23-6. doi: 10.1556/OH.2011.28999.
[Article in Hungarian]

Abstract

Heart transplantation was performed in a 17-year old boy with severe left ventricular failure. Previously a congenital heart disease, tetralogy of Fallot was reconstructed in one and half years old of age. Authors present the different surgical problems complicated this procedure. In Hungary this is the first heart transplantation after a corrective surgical procedure of a complex congenital heart disease.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / methods
  • Heart Failure / etiology
  • Heart Failure / surgery*
  • Heart Transplantation / methods*
  • Heart Ventricles
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Tetralogy of Fallot / complications
  • Tetralogy of Fallot / surgery*
  • Treatment Outcome