title: Heart transplantation after repair of postinfarction ventricular septal defect.
abstract: A 68 year-old man underwent surgical repair of a ventricular septal defect following an acute myocardial infarction. Recurrent interventricular septal rupture with significant left-to-right shunting led to progressive deterioration in cardiac function and intractable heart failure. The patient underwent orthotopic heart transplantation three months after his initial operation, and he is clinically well sixteen months after transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blanche
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Aleksic
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Czer
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Freimark
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Takkenberg
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trento
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012008:Recurrence; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018658:Ventricular Septal Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*