Escalation to transplantation in refractory stone heart syndrome: a case report of advanced mechanical circulatory support failure
Theresa Holst, Jasmin Hanke, Reza Poyanmehr, Martin Hinteregger, Jan D Schmitto, Günes Dogan, Murat Avsar, Alexander Weymann, Arjang Ruhparwar, Bastian Schmack · 2026
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Theresa Holst and colleagues report a 2026 case report of stone heart syndrome, a rare disaster during heart surgery. In this condition the heart muscle locks into a hard, lasting spasm when blood flow returns, and it does not respond to drugs or machines. A heart surgeon first described it in 1972.
Their patient was a healthy twenty-two-year-old having planned mitral valve surgery who developed failure of both heart chambers after bypass. Support machines were stepped up over days, then a lasting heart pump was placed on day five. Nothing reversed the damage, so the patient received a heart transplant on day twenty-three. The later course was largely smooth, and discharge to rehabilitation came six weeks after transplant.
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| CREATOR | Theresa Holst, Jasmin Hanke, Reza Poyanmehr, Martin Hinteregger, Jan D Schmitto, Günes Dogan, Murat Avsar, Alexander Weymann, Arjang Ruhparwar, Bastian Schmack |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14022 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |