Heart Transplantation
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Heart transplantation.
Although the number of available donor hearts severely limits the epidemiologic impact of heart transplantation on patients with heart failure, patients with end-stage heart failure unresponsive to medical management currently have no other viable alternatives. Destination therapy with a ventricular assist device is the closest toward approaching clinical reality but has been plagued with probl...
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A main goal in the follow-up of patients after heart-transplantation (HTX) is the prevention and effective treatment of infections, one of the most common life threatening complications of longterm immunosuppressive therapy [1] (Figure 1). After solid organ transplantation a certain pattern of infections can be observed [1] (Figure 2). This helps developing a differential diagnosis in transplan...
متن کاملGuidelines for heart transplantation.
Based on the changes in the field of heart transplantation and the treatment and prognosis of patients with heart failure, these updated guidelines were composed by a committee under the supervision of both the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Association for Cardiothoracic surgery (NVVC and NVT).THE INDICATION FOR HEART TRANSPLANTATION IS DEFINED AS: 'End-stage heart disea...
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FOR MOST PATIENTS and families, the psychological stresses and adjustments associated with cardiac transplantation originate not during the process of transplantation itself but with the discovery of lifethreatening illness. Their responses and coping mechanisms frequently reflect the stages described by Kubler-Rossl: denial of the severity of illness and a search for better physicians or treat...
متن کاملMalignancy after heart transplantation.
BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence and type of malignancies after heart transplantation at a medical institute in Taiwan. METHODS From January 1987 to December 2008, a total of 66 patients who survived more than 30 days after transplantation were enrolled in this study. RESULTS Of the 66 heart transplant recipients, 8 (12.1%) post-transplant malignancies were d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000038417.80663.5e