title: Esophageal cancer surgery in heart transplant patients.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Munich, Germany. vrahden@nt1.chir.med.tu-muenchen.de
authors.forename: Burkhard H A
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: von Rahden
authors.forename: Hubert J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Holger
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bartels
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Overbeck
authors.forename: J Rüdiger
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Siewert
mesh_terms: 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