Open AccessAdult cardiac transplantation: A review of perioperative management Part - I
Author(s) -
Harish Ramakrishna,
Dawn E. Jaroszewski,
Francisco A. Arabía
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/0971-9784.45018
Subject(s) - medicine , perioperative , allotransplantation , transplantation , heart transplantation , intensive care medicine , cardiac surgery , heart failure , surgery , cardiology
Cardiac allotransplantation has, over the years, become the established therapeutic modality for patients with end-stage heart failure. Significant advances in immunosuppressive therapy have dramatically improved the outcome of heart transplantation over the past four decades. This review will focus on the anaesthetic challenges involved in the perioperative management of these complex patients as well as some of the proposed alternatives to transplantation.