Donor/Recipient Aorta Size Mismatch in Heart Transplantation: A Technical Alternative

1 January 1994

journal article
Published by Hindawi Limited in Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Vol. 9 (1), 70-73
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8191.1994.tb00827.x

Abstract

A technical alternative is proposed to enable transplantation in cases of considerable size mismatch between donor and recipient aorta: interposition of a Dacron graft of intermediate diameter. This procedure was performed in a 56-year-old patient weighing 75 kg in whom a heart from a 40-kg donor was implanted.

Keywords

SIZE MISMATCH
HEART
INTERMEDIATE DIAMETER
KG DONOR
DONOR/RECIPIENT AORTA
ENABLE TRANSPLANTATION

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Weight is not an accurate criterion for adult cardiac transplant size matching
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1991
Total orthotopic heart transplantation: An alternative to the standard technique
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1991

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