RT Book, Section
A1 Cagliani, Joaquin A.
A1 Aronoff, Lior
A1 Fahmy, Ahmed
A1 Teperman, Lewis W.
A1 Molmenti, Ernesto Pompeo
A2 Molmenti, Ernesto Pompeo
A2 Santibañes, Martin de
A2 Santibañes, Eduardo de
SR Print(0)
ID 1180113076
T1 Combined Heart–Liver Transplantation
T2 Liver Transplantation: Operative Techniques and Medical Management
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260462517
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180113076
RD 2024/04/24
AB This  is  a  rare  and  lifesaving  surgical  procedure.The  first  combined  heart–liver  transplantation  (CHLT)  case  in  the  United  States  was  performed  in  1984  in  a  6-year-old  female  with  familial  hypercholesterolemia  and  heart  failure  secondary  to  coronary  artery  disease.1The  Organ  Procurement  and  Transplantation  Network  (OPTN)  reported  231  CHLT  procedures  in  the  United  States  between  January  1,  1988,  and  October  31,  2017.As  noted  in  Fig.  78-1,  the  number  of  CHLT  has  been  increasing  over  the  past  decades