Cardiac changes noted within 4 years of transplant in postmortem evaluation of a patient with untreated obstructive sleep apnea.
In this case report, the authors discuss the autopsy findings of biventricular cardiomegaly 4 years after transplantation of an otherwise normal heart in a patient who did not accept treatment for documented severe obstructive sleep apnea.
Fishback
Nancy F
NF
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Pathology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. FishbaNF@EVMS.EDU
Wettach
George R
GR
D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D017286:Polysomnography; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000150:complications*; D013997:Time Factors