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Development of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction after double-lung transplantation for primary pulmonary hypertension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Gül Sagin Saylam  and
Jane Somerville
Gül Sagin Saylam
Affiliation:
From the Grown-up Congenital Heart Unit, Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London
Jane Somerville*
Affiliation:
From the Grown-up Congenital Heart Unit, Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London
*
Dr. Jane Somerville, Grown-up Congenital Heart Unit, Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, United Kingdom. Tel. 071-351-8200; Fax. 071-351-8201.
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Summary

We present a patient with primary pulmonary hypertension who had unusually high pulmonary arterial pressure prior to double-lung transplantation. Obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract developed after transplantation and progressed over the subsequent two years.

Keywords

Right ventricular outflow obstructiondouble-lung transplantation
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 278 - 281
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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