Supraventricular tachycardia after heterotopic heart transplantation.
Heterotopic cardiac transplantation where the recipient heart remains in tandem with the donor heart has a one-year survival of approximately 80%. Rhythm disturbances after heterotopic cardiac transplantation have rarely been described and their potential influence on the patients symptoms and prognosis is unclear. We report a case of supraventricular tachycardia of the recipient heart in a patient following heterotopic heart transplantation recorded during ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring.
Alexopoulos
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Cardiac Department, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, U.K.
Sleight
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Yacoub
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D004562:Electrocardiography; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000503:physiopathology*