A review of failure experience in orthotopic heart transplantation from two cases / 中华器官移植杂志

ABSTRACT

Orthotopic heart transplantation was performed on two critical patients with end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy on Oct.14, 1996 and March 20, 1997 respectively.One case of pre-operative hepatic-renal failure died of systemic organs failure and severe circulation failure in oper-ation, and the other case of severe pulmonary hypertension preoperatively died of right heart fail-ure and pulmonary hypertension crisis on the seventh day after operation.Operating time and indi-cations of heart transplantation, preoperative evaluation for the patients with pulmonary hyperten-sion, and management of right heart failure after heart transplantation were detailedly discussed.