- Contains the most current techniques, practices and thinking in heart transplantation
- Structured as a concise high-yield cardiology review
- Provides a comprehensive clinical review of advanced heart failure and transplantation
This is a concise review of up-to-date concepts and techniques in the discipline of heart transplantation.
It is a review and reference for practitioners managing patients with advanced heart disease, including patients with end-stage heart failure, mechanical circulatory support or transplant recipients. Heart failure is a major public health issue, with a prevalence of over 5.8 million in the USA, and over 23 million worldwide, and rising. The lifetime risk of developing heart failure is one in five. Heart failure carries substantial morbidity and mortality, with 5-year mortality that rival those of many cancers.
As heart transplantation remains the best treatment option for patients with end stage heart failure, this primer will provide valuable information and management strategies for physicians caring for these patients. Also, due to continued shortage in donor organs, heart transplantation is a limited resource – which further underscores the importance of appropriately evaluating patients for transplant candidacy and managing their pre, peri- and post-transplant care for maximum benefit and best outcomes.
Content- Medical and Device Options for Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure
- Mechanical and Surgical Options for Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure
- Evaluation for Heart Transplant Candidacy
- Listing, Donor Allocation and Optimization of the Pre-transplant Patient
- Overview of Transplantation Immunobiology
- The Sensitized Patient Awaiting Heart Transplantation
- Donor Organ Preservation and Surgical Considerations in Heart Transplantation
- Physiology of the Transplanted Heart
- Immediate Post-operative Management After Heart Transplantation
- Immunosuppression Strategies in Heart Transplantation
- Managing Infections in Cardiac Transplantation
- Cardiac Allograft Rejection, Surveillance and Treatment
- Outpatient Management and Long-Term Complications in Heart Transplantation
- Quality of Life After Heart Transplantation
- Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Special Considerations
- Combined Heart and Other Organ Transplant
- The Total Artificial Heart
- The Future of Heart Transplantation
