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 venovenous bypass (VVB), OHT with CPB and OLT without VVB, en-bloc technique and sequential transplantation.

Source: Transplantation Reviews - July 15, 2016 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Eliza W. Beal, Khalid Mumtaz, Don Hayes, Bryan A. Whitson, Sylvester M. Black Source Type: research