Clinical Guide to Heart Transplantation

Introduction.- Options for Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure.- Evaluation of Heart Transplant Candidacy.- Listing Criteria and Process.- Optimal Management of Patients on the Heart Transplant Waiting List.- Histocompatibility Testing and Cross Matching.- The Sensitized Patient Awaiting Heart Transplantation.- Donor Organ Preservation and Surgical Considerations in Heart Transplantation.- Immediate Post-Operative Period.- Immunosuppression Strategies in Heart Transplantation.- Rejection Surveillance and Treatment in the First Year.- Out-Patient Management of the Heart Transplant Patient.- Long-Term Complications in Heart Transplantation.- The Total Artificial Heart.- Chimerism and Tolerance.- Genomics In Heart Transplantation.- The Future of Heart Transplantation.?

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• Medicina cardiovascular
• Cirurgia dos transplantes
• Cirurgia cardiotorácica

Antibodies;Cardiac Transplantation;Heart Failure;Immunosuppression;Mechanical Circulatory Support