OBJECTIVE Donor shortage and improved medical treatment of heart failure increase the prevalence of patients with extreme right ventricular failure and ascites to heart transplantation. The clinical outcome of heart transplantation in these patients has rarely been reported. Here, we sought to evaluate the clinical outcome of heart transplantation in patients with extreme right ventricular fail...

Psychological assessment before heart transplantation: more hope to candidates in Brazil? To the Editor, I have read with great interest the paper by Cunha et al. [1] which presents the results of a psychological assessment of candidates to heart transplantation. They evaluated 60 candidates to heart transplantation from 2004 to 2012, 73% with a stable partner. By using the SF-36 Health survey,...

Heart transplantation is an effective mode of treatment for patients suffering from end-stage heart failure but the demand for hearts far outweighs supply. Approximately 10e20% of potential heart-transplant recipients die on the waiting list. Despite public education initiatives, activity in heart transplantation has been falling, with activity in the UK dropping from O250 cases/year in 1995 to...

BACKGROUND Although heart transplantation is a successful therapy for patients suffering from end-stage heart failure, the therapeutic is limited by the lack of organs. Donor cardiac arrest is a classic hindrance to heart retrieval as it raises issues on post-transplant outcomes. CASE PRESENTATION The present case reports a successful heart transplantation after prolonged donor cardiac arrest...