[Favorable outcome of severe right cardiac insufficiency after bipulmonary transplantation]

Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss. 1994 Jul;87(7):945-7.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The authors report a long term success of bipulmonary transplantation in a 15 year old girl with cystic fibrosis and respiratory failure complicated by severe right heart failure. The operation did not cause any particular problems. After transplantation, the clinical signs of right ventricular failure and echocardiographic right ventricular dilatation regressed in less than one week. The right ventricular hypertrophy also regressed. Echocardiography shows no abnormality after 5 years' follow-up.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Cystic Fibrosis / complications*
  • Cystic Fibrosis / surgery
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Heart Failure / etiology*
  • Heart Failure / therapy
  • Humans
  • Hypertrophy, Right Ventricular / etiology
  • Lung Transplantation* / methods
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ventricular Function, Right