Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation: Indications, Outcomes and Current Experience

Combined heart-liver transplantation is a rare, life-saving procedure that treats complex and often fatal diseases including familial amyloidosis polyneuropathy and late stage congenital heart disease status-post previous repair. There were 159 combined heart-liver transplantations performed between January 1, 1988 and October 3, 2014 in the United States. A multitude of potential techniques to be used for combined heart and liver transplant including: orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) and orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) on full cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), OHT with CPB and OLT with veno-venous bypass (VVB), OHT with CPB and OLT without VVB, en-bloc technique and sequential transplantation.
Source: Transplantation Reviews - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Source Type: research