Vascular Disease and Surgery

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Heart transplantation surgery has become the standard treatment for selected patients with end-stage heart failure. Improvements in immunosuppressant, donor procurement, surgical techniques, and post-transplant care have resulted in a substantial decrease in acute allograft rejection, which had previously significantly limited survival of heart transplant recipients.

The number of heart transplants performed worldwide over the last decade has continued to increase annually.

Current challenges include older age of both recipients and donors; an increasing number of transplants performed with mechanical circulatory support; the growing use of combined organ transplants (now more than 4% of all heart transplants); and a high proportion of sensitised patients (those with pre-formed antibodies against human leukocyte antigens, which increased the risk of organ rejection).

Articles

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention without On-site Surgical Back-up

Citation:

Interventional Cardiology 2009;4(1):12-5

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention without On-site Surgical Back-up

Citation:

US Cardiology 2009;6(1):69–74

Percutaneous Implantation of Aortic Valve Prostheses in Patients with Calcific Aortic Stenosis - Technical Advances

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Interventional Cardiology 2007;2(1):68-9

Can Stem Cell Transplantation Mend a Broken Heart?

Citation:

US Cardiology 2004:1(1):158-60