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Arrhythmia
Findings from Niigata University in arrhythmia reported
December 9th, 2008
"Cardiac pacing often turns out to be the only effective treatment of severe, life-threatening arrhythmias. We performed 77 living-donor liver transplantations (LDLT) from 1999 to 2007," scientists in Niigata, Japan report. "In these cases, three recipients experienced fatal arrhythmia and required temporary cardiac pacing during the perioperative period. The first case was a 68-year-old woman diagnosed with liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Her Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score wits 34. We performed LDLT using a right lobe graft. She showed complete atrioventricular block with cardiac arrest at postoperative day (POD) 42 after a bacterial...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-12-09)
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