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Toll-like receptors and damage-associated molecular patterns in the pathogenesis of heart transplant rejection
Significant strides have been made in our understanding of the immune system and its role in cardiac transplant rejection. Despite the growing...
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Non-Transplant Surgery for Post-Transplant Patient
Liver transplantation (LT) has become a viable and acceptable modality of treatment for decompensated end stage liver disease (ESLD). Over the last...
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Transplant Recipients
Organ transplantation constitutes a lifesaving intervention for persons with end-stage organ disease. Long-term immunosuppressant therapy is...
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Post-transplant Management in Heart Transplant Recipients: New Drugs and Prophylactic Strategies
Purpose of reviewToday, heart transplant offers a 1-year survival of 91% to select patients with end-stage heart failure. Since the implementation of...
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Rodent Transplant Medicine
This book introduces transplantation in rodents as useful tools used in studying transplant immunobiology. Several solid organs (kidney, heart,...
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Cardiac transplant and exercise cardiac rehabilitation
Cardiac transplantation is the final therapeutic option for patients with end-stage heart failure. Most patients experience a favorable functional...
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Acute myocardial infarction and acute heart failure among renal transplant recipients: a national readmissions database study
BackgroundThe literature on the mortality and 30-day readmissions for acute heart failure and for acute myocardial infarction among renal-transplant...
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Native T1 map** detects both acute clinical rejection and graft dysfunction in pediatric heart transplant patients
BackgroundCardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is emerging as an important tool for cardiac allograft assessment. Native T1 map** may add value...
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Long term development of diastolic dysfunction and heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction in heart transplant recipients
Heart transplant recipients (HTX) have several risk factors for heart failure which can trigger pro-inflammatory and fibrosis factors and set into...
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Building a Lung Transplant Program
Lung Transplantation is a life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage respiratory failure and provides significant benefit in terms of both...
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Heart Transplant in Older Adults
Purpose of ReviewOlder adults with end-stage heart failure may be candidates for heart transplantation (HT) and changing guidelines and institutional...
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A Preliminary Study of One Year Safety and Tolerability of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Medications in Youth with Fontan Palliation or Heart Transplant
There are no published studies that examine the safety and tolerability of medication to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in...
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Prehabilitation in Adult Solid Organ Transplant Candidates
Purpose of ReviewTo highlight the importance of biological age in the context of prehabilitation and to present relevant research regarding...
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Decreased Heart Rate Variability in Children with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure is Associated with Poor Outcomes
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a noninvasive indicator of the health of neurocardiac interactions of the autonomic nervous system. In adults,...
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Heart Transplantation
Heart transplantation remains the gold standard for end-stage heart failure. It has proven to be safe and effective since the original animal...
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Pre-transplant Evaluation
To improve the outcome of stem cell transplantation (SCT) an optimal selection of transplant recipient and an extensive pre-SCT workup should be...
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Decreased Global Myocardial Work Efficiency Correlates with Coronary Vasculopathy in Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients
Coronary angiography remains the standard for diagnosis of cardiac transplant vasculopathy (CAV), but it is invasive. Non-invasively derived left...
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Prognostic Value of Left and right ventricular deformation strain analysis on Acute Cellular rejection in Heart Transplant recipients: A 6-year outcome study
PurposeTwo-dimensional (2D) strain analysis is a sensitive method for detecting myocardial dysfunction in acute cellular rejection (ACR) from...
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SARS-CoV-2 infection in heart transplant recipients: a systematic literature review of clinical outcomes and immunosuppression strategies
The impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on heart transplant recipients is unknown. Literature is limited to case reports and series. The purpose of this...
