title: Acquired cor triatriatum after orthotopic cardiac transplantation.
abstract: Orthotopic cardiac transplantation was performed in a 42-year-old woman with idiopathic cardiomyopathy. Postoperative right ventricular failure developed and a transesophageal echocardiogram demonstrated acquired cor triatriatum with marked obstruction to mitral valve inflow and severe right ventricular dilatation. At reexploration, redundant donor atrial tissue was excised correcting the cor triatriatum. She was alive and well with normal hemodynamic parameters 12 months after transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1096.
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Oaks
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Rayburn
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Kon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D003310:Cor Triatriatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery