An Overview of the Heart Surgery Specialty: heart transplant, lung transplant, heart-lung transplantation, aortic valve surgery, bypass surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, heart valve surgery, removal of cardiac tumors, reoperation valve surgery
Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
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Treatment & Services
- Aorta Graft
- Aorta Surgery
- Aortic Dissection
- Aortic Valve Repair
- Aortic Valve Replacement
- Aortic Valve Surgery
- Arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts
- Atherosclerosis Surgery
- Atrial Septal Defect Closure
- Bypass Surgery
- Cardiac Surgery
- Complex Aorta Surgery
- Coronary Artery Reoperation
- Epicardial Lead Placement
- Heart Failure Surgery
- Heart Surgery
- Heart Surgery for Marfan Syndrome
- Heart Surgery Reoperation
- Heart Valve Surgery
- High Risk Reoperation Surgery
- Left Ventricular Reconstructive Surgery
- Lung Transplantation
- Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Repair
- Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Mitral Valve Replacement
- Mitral Valve Surgery
- Myectomy
- Myocardial Biopsy
- Off Pump Bypass Surgery
- Organ Transplantation
- Pericardiectomy
- Pericardiocentesis
- Pericardium Surgery
- Pulmonary Embolism Surgery
- Pulmonary Vein Ablation Procedure
- Radial Artery and Saphenous Vein Harvesting
- Removal of Atrial Myxoma
- Removal of Cardiac Tumors
- Reoperation Valve Surgery
- Surgery for Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
- Surgical Ablation Of Atrial Fibrillation
- Valve Surgery
Specialty in Diseases and Conditions
- Aneurysms
- Aorta Disease
- Aortic Aneurysms
- Aortic Regurgitation
- Aortic Stenosis
- Atherosclerosis (vascular)
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Atrial Septal Defects
- Cardiac Tumors
- Cardiomyopathy
- Coarctation Of The Aorta
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Congenital Valve Disease
- Constrictive Peridarditis
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- Endocarditis
- Heart Disease
- Heart Failure
- Heart Valve Disease
- Heart Valve Infections
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Infective Endocarditis
- Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
- Marfan Syndrome
- Mitral Valve Prolapse
- Mitral Valve Regurgitation
- Mitral Valve Stenosis
- Myxomas
- Patent Foramen Ovale
- Pericarditis
- Pulmonary Valve Disease
- Pulmonic Regurgitation
- Pulmonic Stenosis
- Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
- Rheumatic Heart Disease
- Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
- Tricuspid Regurgitation
- Tricuspid Stenosis
- Tricuspid Valve Disease
One heart in 3 patients.
Source
Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Abstract
In this report, we present a successful reuse of a transplanted heart under complex clinical conditions. Our patient was the second recipient, a 63-year-old man with end-stage heart failure due to amyloid-induced cardiomyopathy. After an uneventful postoperative course, he was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia 6 months after transplantation and died 10 months after transplantation. This outcome was determined by a malignancy in an immunosuppressed patient. Reuse of a transplanted heart in carefully selected patients is a possible alternative in an era of donor organ shortage.
Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- PMID: 23176956
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