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Heart Transplantation From DCD Donors in Australia: Lessons Learned From the First 74 Cases
Heart transplantation from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors has the potential to substantially increase overall heart transplant activity.
Y. Joshi+26 more
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Current status and outcomes in heart transplantation: a narrative review.
The first human heart transplantation was performed by Christian Barnard in 1967. While the technical aspect had been worked out, allograft rejection was a major limitation in the early days of heart transplant.
Morcos A. Awad, Aakash Shah, B. Griffith
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Exercise training in heart transplantation
Heart transplantation remains the gold standard in the treatment of end-stage heart failure (HF). Heart transplantation patients present lower exercise capacity due to cardiovascular and musculoskeletal alterations leading thus to poor quality of life ...
C. Kourek+4 more
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Heart Transplant: Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease [PDF]
Cardiac transplantation for congenital heart disease incorporates aspects of both reparative and replacement surgery. Although intracardiac congenital malformations are replaced, and therefore pose few obstacles to the transplant surgeon, extracardiac malformations (congenital, acquired, or iatrogenic) can present considerable challenges to the ...
Jonathan M. Chen, Jonathan M. Chen
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Cell Therapy in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is the most common cause of hospitalisation for heart failure. However, only limited effective treatments are available. Recent evidence suggests that HFpEF may result from a systemic proinflammatory
Sabina Frljak+2 more
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Pre-clinical heart transplantation studies have shown that ex vivo non-ischemic heart preservation (NIHP) can be safely used for 24 h. Here we perform a prospective, open-label, non-randomized phase II study comparing NIHP to static cold preservation ...
J. Nilsson+6 more
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Consensus conference on heart‐kidney transplantation
Simultaneous heart‐kidney transplant (sHK) has enabled the successful transplantation of patients with end‐stage heart disease and concomitant kidney disease, with non‐inferior outcomes to heart transplant (HT) alone.
J. Kobashigawa+41 more
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While nearly 4,000 patients undergo heart transplantation (HTx) every year in the world, only 27 HTx were performed since February, 1999, because of very strict Organ Transplantation Law in Japan. All were treated with triple immunosuppressive regimen.
Norihide, Fukushima, Hikaru, Matsuda
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Transplantation of progenitor cells and regeneration enhancement in acute myocardial infarction - (TOPCARE-AMI) [PDF]
Background - Experimental studies suggest that transplantation of blood-derived or bone marrow–derived progenitor cells beneficially affects postinfarction remodeling.
Aicher, A+12 more
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A 63-year-old female presented late with anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock. This was complicated by acute ventricular septal defect with large left-to-right shunt.
Lauren Giudicatti+9 more
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