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Severe airway obstruction from a bronchial cast after cardiac transplantation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2013

John J. Parent  and
Robert K. Darragh
John J. Parent*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America
Robert K. Darragh
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: J. J. Parent, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, 705 Riley Hospital Drive, RR 127, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States of America. Tel: 317-274-8906; Fax: 317-274-4022; E-mail: jjparent@iu.edu
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Abstract

Plastic bronchitis is a rare and difficult to treat disease process in patients with congenital heart disease. Cardiac transplantation has been used increasingly to reverse this process, especially in single ventricle physiology. This case report demonstrates a foreseeable complication after cardiac transplantation in such a patient.

Keywords

Plastic bronchitiscardiac transplantsingle ventricle
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 739 - 740
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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