title: Successful heart-lung transplantation in a patient with kyphoscoliosis.
abstract: The association is well established between congenital heart disease and spinal deformities such as scoliosis or kyphosis, but data are not available for risks and the outcome of heart surgery in patients with spinal deformities. We report a case of successful orthotopic heart lung transplantation in a patient with complex congenital heart disease and severe chest deformity who had undergone previous spinal fusion surgery for progressive right convex thoracic kyphoscoliosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia, University of Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
authors.forename: Kazuaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukahara
authors.forename: Kazutomo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Minami
authors.forename: Bert
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hansky
authors.forename: Sebastian A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Schulte-Eistrup
authors.forename: Gero
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tenderich
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Reiner
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Koerfer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D007738:Kyphosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011859:Radiography; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*