title: Heart-lung transplantation in a patient with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect.
abstract: Operation for pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect is challenging, as in most patients the pulmonary arteries are hypoplastic, nonconfluent, or in part absent. In these cases, combined heart-lung transplantation may be the surgical treatment of choice. In the described case, the morphology of pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect was present in combination with completely atretic main, left, and right pulmonary arteries. In this patient, successful heart-lung transplantation was performed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Reichenspurner
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Netz
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Uberfuhr
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: H O
authors.initials: HO
authors.lastname: Vetter
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Reichart
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000002:abnormalities*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*