Esophageal cancer surgery in heart transplant patients.
We herein report about 2 heart transplant patients undergoing surgical resection for esophageal cancer. Both were long-term survivors after orthotopic heart transplantation for dilated cardiomyopathy. One patient underwent a transthoracic esophagectomy and gastric pull-up for an early squamous cell carcinoma of the infracarinal esophagus. The second patient underwent a resection of the cervical esophagus and interposition of a free jejunal segment after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy for a locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma in the cervical esophagus.
von Rahden
Burkhard H A
BH
Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Munich, Germany. vrahden@nt1.chir.med.tu-muenchen.de
Stein
Hubert J
HJ
Schmidt
Georg
G
Bartels
Holger
H
Overbeck
Matthias
M
Siewert
J Rüdiger
JR
D000368:Aged; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000379:methods; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018307:Neoplasms, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome