Successful heart-lung transplantation in a patient with kyphoscoliosis.
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.
Fukahara
Kazuaki
K
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia, University of Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
Minami
Kazutomo
K
Hansky
Bert
B
Schulte-Eistrup
Sebastian A
SA
Tenderich
Gero
G
Schulz
Uwe
U
Koerfer
Reiner
R
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*