Heart transplantation for primary cardiac sarcoma

Primary cardiac sarcoma is a rapidly progressive, aggressive tumor that very rare in the general population. Conservative treatment for this not effective. The only effective radical surgical removal of malignancy. However, if cannot be performed, heart transplantation (HT) becomes option. median survival recipients with preoperative 8.5 months. Globally, such operations are performed small number cases. This paper presents first experience HT patient primary Russian Federation.