Recurrent Cardiac Arrest during a Nontransplant Operation Due to Variant Angina in a Liver Transplantation Patient.
10.4285/jkstn.2016.30.3.143
- Author:
Jaeyoung YANG
1
;
Dae Yoon KIM
;
Suk Koo LEE
;
Gaabsoo KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. gaabsoo.kim@samsung.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Liver transplantation;
Heart arrest;
Variant angina
- MeSH:
Coronary Vasospasm;
Heart Arrest*;
Humans;
Liver Transplantation*;
Liver*;
Middle Aged;
Myocardial Infarction;
Transplant Recipients
- From:The Journal of the Korean Society for Transplantation
2016;30(3):143-147
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
We report a case of recurrent cardiac arrest during a nontransplant operation in a liver transplant recipient with prior cardiac arrest during liver transplantation. A 45-year-old man who experienced cardiac arrest for 17 minutes during the preanhepatic phase of liver transplantation–which was performed 34 months ago–did not survive the recurrent cardiac arrest during portal venoplasty. Variant angina was not suspected for the first cardiac arrest; however, myocardial infarction by coronary vasospasm was revealed to be the cause of the second cardiac arrest.
