Inspirations from a Complicated Pediatric Heart Transplantation

Mohammed El-Souri; John S Dayco; Luis Afonso

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.05.026

Inspirations from a Complicated Pediatric Heart Transplantation

JACC Case Rep. 2022 Jul 20;4(14):915-918. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.05.026.

Authors

Mohammed El-Souri¹, John S Dayco², Luis Afonso³

Affiliations

¹ College of Liberal Arts and Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
³ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Abstract

It takes only 1 profound experience to change someone's life. We invite you to read about how an experience of struggle led to a motivation in medicine. Through a first-person perspective, the author details the sequence of diagnosis and treatment of his own case of cardiac transplantation secondary to viral cardiomyopathy.

Keywords: AICD, automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator; EBV, Epstein-Barr virus; LVAD, left ventricular assist device; PET, positron emission tomography; RUQ, right upper quadrant; VA-ECMO, venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator; pediatric heart transplantation; post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder.

Publication types

Editorial