Erschienen in:
01.12.2011 | Case Report
Treatment of Plastic Bronchitis by Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
verfasst von:
Jamie E. Laubisch, Diana M. Green, Peter J. Mogayzel, W. Reid Thompson
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Cardiology
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Ausgabe 8/2011
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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.