SIMULTANEOUS RENAL TRANSPLANTATION AND HEART RE-TRANSPLANTATION: SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE
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2013
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WILEY-BLACKWELL
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PEDIATRIC TRANSPLANTATION, v.17, n.2, p.194-194, 2013
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OBJECTIVES: To report a simultaneous renal transplantation and heart re-transplantation in pediatric population at single center. MATERIAL AND METHODS: To report the prevalence and the clinical outcome of kidney transplantation and heart re-transplantation at Heart Institute (Incor) University of Sao Paulo Medical School. RESULTS: From October 1992 to October 2012, 115 patients were submitted to heart transplantation and 120 transplants were performed. One of 115 patients was submitted to kidney and heart re-transplantation at our institution. A 17 yrs old adolescent was submitted to hear transplantation at age of 4 yrs old. The indication for heart transplantation was dilated cardiomyopathy. He developed graft vascular disease 6 yrs after transplant and renal failure due to calcineurin inhibitors 10 yrs later the transplantation. He was admitted at Emergency room and needed vasoative drug infusion. He was listed to simultaneous kidney and heart re-transplantation. He was submitted to procedure and the ischemic time for the heart was 180 min. The donor was male and the cause of brain death was trauma. He developed severe coagulopathy. The patient died after 13 yrs of the first heart transplantation and 31 days after the second transplant due to multiple organ failure. CONCLUSION: Simultaneous kidney and heart re-transplantation can be performed although being complex procedure.