This Fourteenth Pediatric Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation Report covers the pediatric lung transplantation and heart-lung transplantation experience from January 1986 through June 2010. During this period, 1,664 pediatric lung transplant procedures and 653 pediatric heart-lung transplant procedures were reported to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Registr...

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C JHP – Vol. 64, No. 4 – July–August 2011 JCPH – Vol. 64, n 4 – juillet–août 2011 References 1. Dubrey SW, Banner N. Home inotrope treatment for intractable heart failure following heart transplantation. Heart 1999;82(2):248-251. 2. Jiménez J, Jara J, Bednar B, Bauerlein J, Mallon S. Long-term (> 8 weeks) home inotropic therapy as destination therapy in patients with advanced heart failure or a...

BACKGROUND The purported advantage of ABO-incompatible (ABO-I) listing is to reduce wait times and wait-list mortality among infants awaiting heart transplantation. We sought to describe recent trends in ABO-I listing for US infants and to determine the impact of ABO-I listing on wait times and wait-list mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS In this multicenter retrospective cohort study using Organ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: CHLT: Combined heart and liver transplantation; FAP: Familial Amyloid Poly neuropathy; OLT: Orthotopic Liver Transplant; OHT: Orthotopic Heart Transplant; UNOS : United Network for Organ Sharing; OPTN: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network; HLT: Heart-Liver Transplant; HRT: Heart Transplant; LIV: Liver Transplant; ECMO: Extrac...

LVAD is a mechanical pump supporting a weak heart function and blood flow. Sometimes, the heart may not recover fast enough to take over the pumping action immediately after surgery, in such patients a temporary support device has been employed to maintain the pumping action until the patient’s own heart recovers. This device can be considered as a temporary alternative before the process of ar...

OBJECTIVE There are no guidelines to establish the indications and contraindications for a simultaneous heart and kidney transplantation. We report our single-institutional experience with simultaneous heart and kidney transplantation. METHODS Retrospective chart review. RESULTS Between 1995 and 2006, 13 patients with co-existing end-stage heart and renal failure underwent simultaneous hear...

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...

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...

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...