Interim Cardiac Replacement with a Mechanical Heart: Staged Cardiac Transplantation

AUTOR(ES)

Vaughn, Cecil C.

RESUMO

Lack of donor heart availability complicates the management of terminally ill patients who are candidates for cardiac replacement. The total artificial heart has been used as a bridge to transplantation in three patients with terminal cardiomyopathy. Acute allograft rejection and the lack of another donor heart prompted us to use the mechanical heart as a bridge to re-transplantation in a 33-year-old man. The cardiac prosthesis functioned well for 11 hours, when a second transplantation was performed, but the patient died of right heart failure 48 hours after the second transplantation.

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