Orthotopic Heart Transplantation in a Child with Severe Heart Failure and Chylous Ascites
Resource
JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION v.22 n.7 pp.826-827
Journal
JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
Journal Volume
v.22
Journal Issue
n.7
Pages
826-827
Date Issued
2003
Date
2003
Author(s)
HSU, RON-BIN
Abstract
We report a case of a heart transplantation in a 12-year-old girl 9 years after extensive lung resection and adjuvant chemo- and radiotherapy for intra-thoracic embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma. She had restrictive cardiomyopathy with severe heart failure and chylous ascites. She was treated successfully with orthotopic heart transplantation and her symptoms of chylous ascites subsided gradually after transplantation. Her abdominal girth decreased from 79 cm before the transplant to 53 cm 9 months after the transplant .
Type
journal article