We report a case undergoing heart transplantation due to gradual progression of heart failure four years and one month after dynamic cardiomyoplasty. This case reports a 61-year-old man who received drug therapy after being diagnosed as having idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, but his heart failure progressed to New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III-IV, and heart transplantation was thou...

Patients with advanced heart failure have a poor prognosis and quality of life. Heart transplantation remains the definitive treatment for advanced heart failure that is refractory to conventional medical and surgical therapy. Heart transplantation offers improved survival and quality of life. More than 110 000 heart transplants have been performed worldwide and recorded in the Registry of the ...

PurposeBuild a national network of dedicated cardiothoracic surgical procurement and Organ Care System (OCS™) ex-vivo perfusion clinical experts to: Maximize donor organ utilization for transplantation; overcome logistical infrastructural burden distant procurements allocation; standardize quality care management allografts; establish better work-life balance transplant teams across the U.S.Met...

91 Since the first heart transplantation procedure was performed almost 50 years ago, heart transplantation has undergone a startling transformation from an experimental, high-risk intervention to being offered as standard of care for children and adults with heart failure refractory to medical and surgical therapy. The potential for heart transplantation to treat complex congenital heart disea...

Background/Aim. Heart transplantation is the most effective way to treat patients in terminal stage of heart failure. Endomyocardial biopsy has proven be a safe and appropriate technique, with little sampling error, remains, this day, one commonly used methods for diagnosing acute rejection. In 1990, International Society Lung Transplantation defined standardized system grading severity transpl...

ackground: Current treatment of advanced chronic heart failure comprises pharmacologic approaches, multidisciplinary management strategies and device therapy. We sought to compare the outcome after cardiac synchronization therapy (CRT) with the outcome after heart transplantation within a contemporary heart failure management program. ethods: In a cohort study, survival and quality of life were...