Open AccessCardiac Transplantation and Survival
Author(s) -
Richard Conti C.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.20440
Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , heart transplantation , surgery , cardiac surgery , general surgery
Abstract I don't make any claims to be an expert in managing patients after cardiac transplantation, but I do recall 2 patients which I believe make the point that times have changed since the beginning of cardiac transplantation. In 1968, a patient of mine underwent cardiac transplantation. This was the first transplantation done at Johns Hopkins, and I believe it was 99 th in the world. This patient survived the surgery very well, left the hospital, and in 4 wk he was dead. Copyright © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.