title: Orthotopic heart transplantation in a child with severe heart failure and chylous ascites.
abstract: We report a case of a heart transplantation in a 12-year-old girl 9 years after extensive lung resection and adjuvant chemo- and radiotherapy for intra-thoracic embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma. She had restrictive cardiomyopathy with severe heart failure and chylous ascites. She was treated successfully with orthotopic heart transplantation and her symptoms of chylous ascites subsided gradually after transplantation. Her abdominal girth decreased from 79 cm before the transplant to 53 cm 9 months after the transplant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Cheng-Hsin
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Ron-Bin
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: Mei-Hwan
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Jou-Kou
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shoei-Shen
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shu-Hsun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Chu
mesh_terms: D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D002648:Child; D002915:Chylous Ascites / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D012086:Reoperation; D018233:Rhabdomyosarcoma, Embryonal / Q000628:therapy; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy