Acute heart transplantation from mechanical circulatory support in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient with fulminant myocarditis

© 2021 The Authors. ESC Heart Failure published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society of Cardiology..

Since the establishment of highly active antiretroviral therapy, survival rates have improved among patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection giving them the possibility to become transplant candidates. Recent publications revealed that human immunodeficiency virus-positive heart transplant recipients' survival is similar to non-infected patients. We present the case of a 40-year-old human immunodeficiency virus infected patient, who was hospitalized due to severely decreased left ventricular function with a possible aetiology of acute myocarditis, that has later been confirmed by histological investigation of myocardial biopsy. Due to rapid progression to refractory cardiogenic shock, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation implantation had been initiated, which was upgraded to biventricular assist device later. On the 35th day of upgraded support, the patient underwent heart transplantation uneventfully. Our clinical experience confirms that implementation of temporary mechanical circulatory support and subsequent cardiac transplantation might be successful in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients even in case of new onset, irreversible acute heart failure.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

ESC heart failure - 8(2021), 2 vom: 08. Apr., Seite 1643-1648

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Szakal-Toth, Zsofia [VerfasserIn]
Szlavik, Janos [VerfasserIn]
Soltesz, Adam [VerfasserIn]
Berzsenyi, Viktor [VerfasserIn]
Csikos, Gergely [VerfasserIn]
Varga, Tamas [VerfasserIn]
Racz, Kristof [VerfasserIn]
Kiraly, Akos [VerfasserIn]
Sax, Balazs [VerfasserIn]
Hartyanszky, Istvan [VerfasserIn]
Fintha, Attila [VerfasserIn]
Prohaszka, Zoltan [VerfasserIn]
Monostory, Katalin [VerfasserIn]
Merkely, Bela [VerfasserIn]
Nemeth, Endre [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute heart failure
Acute myocarditis
Case Reports
Heart transplantation
Human immunodeficiency virus
Mechanical circulatory support
Secondary thrombotic microangiopathy

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Date Completed 01.07.2021

Date Revised 01.07.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ehf2.13271

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM321927567