Single Lung Retransplantation for Graft Infarction due to Herniation of Heart

Abstract

A young woman with terminal respiratory failure due to idiopathic pulmonary hypertension underwent bilateral lung transplantation. The postoperative course was complicated by herniation of the heart through over the cut pericardial edge on left side leading to left-sided graft infarction requiring pneumonectomy. Unable to wean off mechanical ventilation, patient required lobar transplantation on the left side. © 2013 Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart, New York.