Also known as: High blood pressure in the lungs
Mason, a 16-year-old with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, is admitted for new onset congestive heart failure and receives a heart-lung transplant. His salvaged heart is then used in a domino transplant for another patient.
Also known as: CHF
Mason develops congestive heart failure secondary to his pulmonary hypertension, requiring urgent heart-lung transplantation.
Also known as: Transplant heart rejection
Brady, who had a heart transplant four years ago, develops chronic rejection causing his transplanted heart to fail. He experiences an MI and cardiac arrhythmia, requiring ECMO support and eventually receives Mason's heart in a domino transplant.
Also known as: Heart attack
Brady experiences a myocardial infarction as a complication of his chronic cardiac graft vasculopathy, which reveals the severity of his transplant rejection.
Also known as: Abnormal EKG
Brady codes with a cardiac arrhythmia due to his failing heart, requiring emergency resuscitation and ECMO placement.
A pregnant patient at 17 weeks has a cystic mass behind the uterus discovered on prenatal ultrasound. Though benign, there is debate about whether to surgically remove it due to risk of malignant transformation versus watchful waiting during pregnancy.