title: Pediatric heart transplant for unresectable primary cardiac tumor.
abstract: Surgery for primary cardiac tumors in children includes complete resection, partial resection, and cardiac transplantation. A pediatric heart transplant in this setting is associated with significantly higher mortality and poorer long-term outcome, and it is reserved for unresectable tumors. We recently performed an emergency pediatric heart transplant in a 7-year-old boy with an unresectable cardiac fibroma in the left ventricle.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India.
authors.forename: Anjith
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prakash Rajakumar
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India.
authors.forename: Sheriff
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ejaz Ahmed
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India.
authors.forename: Roy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Varghese
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India.
authors.forename: Sivakumar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kothandam
authors.affiliation: 3 Department of Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India.
authors.forename: Udaya Charan
authors.initials: UC
authors.lastname: Murmu
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India.
authors.forename: Rajan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sethuratnam
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D002648:Child; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
keywords: Child; Fibroma; Heart neoplasms; Heart transplantation