title: Pediatric Heart Transplantation With Lecompte Maneuver Owing to Extremely Oversized Donor Allograft.
abstract: The techniques and outcomes of heart transplantation in the pediatric population continue to improve over the years, although the supply of organs remains limited. Donor-to-recipient size matching is critical, especially in neonates and small infants. We present a novel strategy for heart transplantation that includes the Lecompte maneuver because of the features of the donor allograft available in a 8-month-old patient with a cardiac fibroma. We discuss the basis principles for extending the indication of this procedure to exceptional transplantation scenarios and describe the results at long-term follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department, Gregorio Marañón Hospital, Madrid, Spain; Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: draglezlopez@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: María-Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: González-López
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department, Gregorio Marañón Hospital, Madrid, Spain; Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Ramón
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pérez-Caballero-Martínez
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department, Gregorio Marañón Hospital, Madrid, Spain; Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Ana-María
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Pita-Fernández
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department, Gregorio Marañón Hospital, Madrid, Spain; Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan-Miguel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gil-Jaurena
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000601:surgery*; D006321:Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009929:Organ Size