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Follow-Up on Heart Transplant After Left Ventricular Assist System Bridge

Department of Surgery 1 Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics 2 Division of Organ Transplantation Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine Osaka, Japan
For reprint information contact: Norihide Fukushima, MD Tel: 81 6 6879 3154 Fax: 81 6 6879 3159 email: nori{at}surg1.med.osaka-u.ac.jp Department of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.

The first heart transplantation permitted under the new organ transplantation law was carried out in a 47-year-old man in the dilated phase of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He had been on a Novacor left ventricular assist system for the previous 4 months. The posttransplant course was uneventful and he returned to work 9 months later. After 2 years of follow-up, he was in good condition and enjoyed a normal quality of life and regular work.