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Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, 2010
This paper briefly and subjectively reviews a number of the modest or tentative, but noteworthy, advances in heart transplantation that have been made during the past 18 months or so.The advances reviewed concern the selection of recipients, the management of the heart transplantation waiting list, the management of donors, post-heart transplant ...
Maria G, Crespo-Leiro +3 more
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This paper briefly and subjectively reviews a number of the modest or tentative, but noteworthy, advances in heart transplantation that have been made during the past 18 months or so.The advances reviewed concern the selection of recipients, the management of the heart transplantation waiting list, the management of donors, post-heart transplant ...
Maria G, Crespo-Leiro +3 more
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2019
Heart transplantation remains the treatment of choice for end-stage heart failure refractory to conventional treatment. Long-term outcome is excellent, and median survival currently exceeds 13 years. The main causes of death late after transplantation are cardiac allograft vasculopathy and cancer.
Finn Gustafsson, Kasper Rossing
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Heart transplantation remains the treatment of choice for end-stage heart failure refractory to conventional treatment. Long-term outcome is excellent, and median survival currently exceeds 13 years. The main causes of death late after transplantation are cardiac allograft vasculopathy and cancer.
Finn Gustafsson, Kasper Rossing
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Pediatric heart transplantation
Paediatrics and Child Health, 2011Abstract Paediatric heart transplantation is the last remaining treatment option for children in end-stage heart failure. Approximately 30 heart transplants are performed in the UK each year, between two specialist centres. Approximately two-thirds of recipients have suffered from a cardiomyopathy (mainly dilated), with the remainder mainly being ...
Jacob Simmonds, Michael Burch
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Heart Transplantation: A Review
Journal of Transplant Coordination, 1999This article explores current developments and continuing dilemmas in heart transplantation. Statistical trends such as the increased number of candidates and the increased waiting time are described. Recent developments in implantable ventricular assist device technology and the perioperative use of nitric oxide are also highlighted.
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ECD for Heart Transplantation [PDF]
, 2014 In October 1997, the Japanese Organ Transplant Act was issued and we needed to successfully start the first heart transplantation (HTx) in Japan. For this reason, very strict criteria for the donor heart were established by the task force committee for heart transplantation in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
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Heart Transplantation in Perspective
Echocardiography, 1985Abstract Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death in the western world. In the 35 years since the first human heart transplants, cardiac transplantation has become established as the therapeutic option of choice in the management of terminal cardiac failure.
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