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...

INTRODUCTION The status of heart transplantation in Singapore is reviewed in this article. MATERIALS AND METHODS The database of 40 consecutive heart transplantations from July 1990 through December 2007 is reviewed retrospectively. The data is compared with the 2008 registry data of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). RESULTS The average age of recipients ...

Heart transplantation is currently the definitive gold standard surgical approach in the treatment of refractory heart failure. However, the shortage of donors limits the achievement of a greater number of heart transplants, in which the use of mechanical circulatory support devices is increasing. With well-established indications and contraindications, as well as diagnosis and treatment of rej...

The problem of perceived inequities in the distribution of hearts and other solid organs for the purposes of transplantation. In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion of problems in the allocation of hearts and other organs for the purposes of transplantation."2 Charges of bias and discrimination have haunted those involved in the procurement and distribution of organs. Many ob...

347 June 2012, Vol. 102, No. 6 SAMJ Orthotopic heart transplantation Christiaan Barnard and his team performed the world’s first human-tohuman heart transplant operation on 3 December 1967. It was a major historical event and a significant breakthrough for medical science. This and subsequent events received front-page media coverage around the world for months on end, describing all aspects in...

OBJECTIVES We studied the outcomes of pediatric patients diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and their relation to epidemiologic and echocardiographic variables at the time of presentation. BACKGROUND The outcome of pediatric DCM patients ranges from recovery to a 50% to 60% chance of death within five years of diagnosis. The impact of heart transplantation and other emerging therapie...

AIMS To identify risk factors for the development of coronary artery disease after heart transplantation. METHODS AND RESULTS In consecutive heart transplanted patients, who underwent coronary angiography at the first year follow-up, the aetiology of heart failure in 113 was ischaemic heart disease or dilated cardiomyopathy. Development of clinically significant graft coronary artery disease ...

As a consequence of improved management in acute coronary syndromes and improved longevity of the population, the number of patients with heart failure is growing. The prevalence and incidence in industrialised countries are estimated to be around 1% and 0.15% of the population, respectively. Up to 10% of people with heart failure are at an advanced stage, amounting to 300 000 patients in the U...

In this study the transplantation group of La Pitié Hospital, Paris, review heart-lung transplantation on the basis of data from the literature and of their own experience. Successively, the history, indications, pre-operative evaluation, donor selection, operative procedure with its immediate, mid-term and late complications, as well as treatment and post-operative follow-up are described.