Social, economic and insurance issues in heart transplantation; heart donor management; selection and management of the lung donor; medical complication of lung transplantation; long term follow-up and rehabilitation of heart transplant patients; long term morphological changes in heart and heart-lung allograft recipients; non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac rejection; antibiotic prophylaxis and management of infectious complications; virologic diagnoisis and treatment; immunosuppression following cardiac transplantation; novel approaches to immunosuppression; neonatal heart transplantation; artificial organs; cardiac xenotransplantation.
