title: Supraventricular tachycardia after heterotopic heart transplantation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Department, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, U.K.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alexopoulos
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sleight
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Yacoub
mesh_terms: D004562:Electrocardiography; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000503:physiopathology*