The heart and heart-lung donor: selection and surgical techniques; The single and double lung donor: selection and surgical techniques; The living thoracic organ donor: selection and surgical techniques; Donor management; The heart recipient: selection and surgical techniques; The heart-lung recipient: selection and surgical techniques; The lung and double lung recipient: patient selection and surgical techniques; Anesthetic management of thoracic transplant patients; Heterotopic heart transplantation; LVAD implantation; Jarvik 7 implantation; Transplantation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome; Immunosuppression: heart transplantation; Immunosuppression: heart-lung and lung transplantation; Immunosuppression: neonatal heart transplantation; Newer techniques of immunosuppression; Special problems in the immediate postoperative period; Characteristics of rejection; Pathological diagnosis of rejection; Noninvasive diagnosis of rejection; Rejection: heart and heart-lung transplantation.