PMID- 12472418
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20030303
LR  - 20071115
IS  - 1341-1098 (Print)
IS  - 1341-1098 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 5
DP  - 2002 Oct
TI  - Experience in heart transplantation after dynamic cardiomyoplasty.
PG  - 319-22
AB  - We report a case undergoing heart transplantation due to gradual progression of 
      heart failure four years and one month after dynamic cardiomyoplasty. This case 
      reports a 61-year-old man who received drug therapy after being diagnosed as 
      having idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, but his heart failure progressed to New 
      York Heart Association (NYHA) class III-IV, and heart transplantation was thought 
      to be indicated. However, dynamic cardiomyoplasty was performed because this 
      patient rejected heart transplantation. An implantable cardioverter/defibrillator 
      (ICD) was implanted for postoperative ventricular arrhythmia. After that, his 
      symptoms rapidly improved, but his heart failure gradually worsened two years 
      after surgery and heart transplantation was performed four years and one month 
      after dynamic cardiomyoplasty. Since transplantation he has had an uneventful 
      postoperative course without rejection or complications.
FAU - Sezai, Akira
AU  - Sezai A
AD  - Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center North 
      Rhine-Westphalia Bad Oeynhausen, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany.
FAU - Minami, Kazutomo
AU  - Minami K
FAU - Tenderich, Gero
AU  - Tenderich G
FAU - Deyerling, Wolfgang
AU  - Deyerling W
FAU - Koerfer, Reiner
AU  - Koerfer R
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Japan
TA  - Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
JT  - Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the 
      Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia
JID - 9703158
SB  - IM
MH  - *Cardiomyoplasty
MH  - Defibrillators, Implantable
MH  - Disease Progression
MH  - Heart Failure/pathology/*surgery
MH  - *Heart Transplantation
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Reoperation
EDAT- 2002/12/11 04:00
MHDA- 2003/03/04 04:00
CRDT- 2002/12/11 04:00
PHST- 2002/12/11 04:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/03/04 04:00 [medline]
PHST- 2002/12/11 04:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2002 Oct;8(5):319-22.