Aortic valve replacement thirty-one months after orthotopic heart transplantation.

Aortic valve replacement with a St. Jude prosthesis was performed 31 months after orthotopic heart transplantation in a 28-year-old male patient with Steinert's disease and idiopathic cardiomyopathy. The donor heart was reported as being normal by the cardiologist of the referring hospital.

Orthotopic heart transplantation eleven years after left pneumonectomy.

Orthotopic heart transplantation was performed in a 21-year-old medical student 11 years after left pneumonectomy for a rhabdomyosarcoma. The cardiomyopathy was the result of the administration of doxorubicin (Adriamycin). The surgical procedure was largely facilitated as a result of an in-hospital donor and the absence of major adhesions.