title: Right lower lobectomy for pulmonary infarction before orthotopic heart transplantation.
abstract: A 39-year-old potential heart transplant recipient had a right lower lobe infiltrate and on pulmonary angiography was found to have an embolous to the common basilar artery. This was successfully managed by a right lower lobectomy, after aggressive medical management failed. The patient was treated postoperatively with antibiotics and subsequently underwent orthotopic heart transplantation. At 1 year after transplant the patient has no evidence of cardiac or pulmonary insufficiency.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Evanston Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, IL 60201.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Loria
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Salinger
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Frohlich
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Arentzen
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Alexander
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography