Combined Heart and Liver Transplantation: The Asan Medical Center Experience / 대한이식학회지
The Journal of the Korean Society for Transplantation
;
: 91-98, 2017.
Artigo
em Inglês
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-12368
ABSTRACT
Combined heart-liver transplantation (CHLT) is an increasingly accepted treatment for select patients with advanced heart and liver disease. However, CHLT are infrequently performed, despite growing optimism about their effectiveness. Here, we report Asan Medical Center experience with CHLT in three patients presenting with advanced heart and liver failure. One patient died of brain swelling because of intractable hyperammonemia on postoperative day 9. The two other patients were still alive at 53 and 9 months postsurgery. None of these patients required readmission for cardiac or hepatic graft dysfunction and no rejection episodes were detected on routine cardiac biopsies. This is the first report of CHLT cases from Korea.
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Assunto principal:
Biópsia
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Edema Encefálico
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Transplante de Coração
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Transplante de Fígado
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Falência Hepática
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Transplantes
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Hiperamonemia
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Otimismo
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Coração
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Coreia (Geográfico)
Limite:
Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
The Journal of the Korean Society for Transplantation
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
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