A Tale of 2 Nodes After Orthotopic Heart Transplant

Sarine Beukian, AGACNP-BC; Kiran Mahmood, MD; Anelechi Anyanwu, MD; Marc Miller, MD; Aditya Parikh, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Oct 2020)

A Tale of 2 Nodes After Orthotopic Heart Transplant

Sarine Beukian, AGACNP-BC,
Kiran Mahmood, MD,
Anelechi Anyanwu, MD,
Marc Miller, MD,
Aditya Parikh, MD

Affiliations

Sarine Beukian, AGACNP-BC: Department of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York
Kiran Mahmood, MD: Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Anelechi Anyanwu, MD: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Marc Miller, MD: Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Aditya Parikh, MD: Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Address for correspondence: Dr. Aditya Parikh, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1030, New York, New York 10029.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 12
pp. 1849 – 1851

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We report the case of a 30-year-old man who underwent orthotopic heart transplant via biatrial anastomosis technique. His post-operative electrocardiogram showed atrial dissociation, which is infrequently seen with newer surgical techniques in heart transplantation. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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