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- Title
Treatment of Plastic Bronchitis by Orthotopic Heart Transplantation.
- Authors
Laubisch, Jamie; Green, Diana; Mogayzel, Peter; Reid Thompson, W.
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
HEART transplantation; HEART diseases; THERAPEUTICS; BRONCHITIS; CARDIAC surgery; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases
- Publication
Pediatric Cardiology, 2011, Vol 32, Issue 8, p1193
- ISSN
0172-0643
- Publication type
Report
- DOI
10.1007/s00246-011-9989-5