Favorable outcome of severe right cardiac insufficiency after bipulmonary transplantation
Ambrosi, P.; Noirclerc, M.; Wernert, F.; Bach, S.; Bernard, P.J.; Luccioni, R.
Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux 87(7): 945-947
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9683 PMID: 7702441 Document Number: 425269
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.