Esophageal cancer surgery in heart transplant patients.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We herein report about 2 heart transplant patients undergoing surgical resection for esophageal cancer. Both were long-term survivors after orthotopic heart transplantation for dilated cardiomyopathy. One patient underwent a transthoracic esophagectomy and gastric pull-up for an early squamous cell carcinoma of the infracarinal esophagus. The second patient underwent a resection of the cervical esophagus and interposition of a free jejunal segment after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy for a locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma in the cervical esophagus.
Medical subject headings
- Esophageal Neoplasms
- Heart Transplantation
- Neoplasms, Squamous Cell