title: Artificial heart and cardiac transplantation: report on the first European combined procedure.
abstract: It became necessary to perform a staged procedure by means of total artificial heart followed by cardiac transplantation in a 26-year-old, female patient. The Ellipsoidheart, as an artificial heart, fitted excellently in the chest without compromising the surrounding structures. As soon as the patient recovered with the artificial heart, a consecutive transplantation was performed. This first European clinical experience gained confidence and suggests applying more artificial hearts as a bridge towards transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, St. John's Hospital, Salzburg, Austria.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Unger
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chmelizek
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jungwirth
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Koller
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laczkovics
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lehner
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lexer
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Olsen
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pohla
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schister
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004231:Diuresis; D004867:Equipment Design; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006354:Heart, Artificial; D006801:Humans; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic