From baby to man with a piggyback heart: long-term success of heterotopic heart transplantation.
We present a case of a young man, who underwent heterotopic heart transplantation 20 years ago, when he was 6 months old. The baby suffered from severe intractable cardiomyopathy. In this desperate situation only a miniature, compromised donor heart became available. Today, the young man is fully active under minimal immunosuppression. His surgical course is reviewed and described.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charité, Medical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany sebastian.holinski@charite.de.
Sebastian
S
Holinski
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charité, Medical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Gerd
G
Hausdorf
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charité, Medical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Wolfgang
W
Konertz
D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D014019:Tissue Donors; D016042:Transplantation, Heterotopic / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome
Heterotopic heart transplantation; Long-term result; Paediatric heart transplantation