Urgent Heart Retransplant in an Adult Patient With Anthracycline-Induced Cardiomyopathy After Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma - Case Report

Exp Clin Transplant. 2015 Dec;13(6):593-5. doi: 10.6002/ect.2014.0077. Epub 2015 Jan 29.

Abstract

Heart retransplant is a treatment option for some patients with graft failure. With heart donor short-age, it is important to assess candidates carefully for cardiac retransplant. An adult patient had a successful urgent heart retransplant due to severe toxic cardiomyopathy (anthracycline-induced) after posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease that was a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Cardiomyopathies / chemically induced*
  • Cardiomyopathies / surgery*
  • Heart Transplantation*
  • Humans
  • Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / complications*
  • Male
  • Reoperation
  • Transplantation, Homologous