Treatment of Plastic Bronchitis by Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Jamie E. Laubisch • Diana M. Green • Peter J. Mogayzel • W. Reid Thompson
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
This case illustrates the successful use of orthotopic heart transplantation for the treatment of plastic bronchitis in a 6-year-old boy with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which developed 2 years after Fontan procedure. Transplantation was undertaken after he failed medical management of airway obstruction. He is currently 1-year post-cardiac transplantion and has no evidence of plastic bronchitis despite weaning of an aggressive airway clearance regimen.
Pediatr Cardiol DOI 10.1007/s00246-011-9989-5 Received: 21 January 2011 / Accepted: 25 March 2011
