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Cardiac Explantation and Autotransplantation
Author(s) -
Wagner Schelley,
Hutchisson Bettyann,
Baird M. Ginny
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)61861-9
Subject(s) - autotransplantation , medicine , surgery , overall survival , survival rate , transplantation
Cardiac explantation and autotransplantation is a procedure by which the heart is removed from the chest and replaced. Explantation of the heart for tumor removal has been documented six times in the literature; however, with this aggressive, approach, the median patient survival rate is only eight months. This article presents a case study in which this procedure was used to treat a patient with malignant fibrous histiocytoma. AORN J 70 (July 1999) 99‐107.