Heart Transplantation

Background of Heart Transplantation 1. History of Cardiac Transplantation 2. Immunology in Relation to Cardiac Transplantation 3. Methodology for Clinical Research in Cardiac Transplantation The Patient Before Transplantation 4. Pathophysiology and Clinical Features of Heart Failure 5. Medical and Nontransplant Surgical Therapy of Heart Failure 6. Recipient Evaluation and Selection 7. Pretransplant Immunologic Evaluation and Management 8. Mechanical Support of the Failing Heart The Transplanted Heart 9. The Donor Heart 10. The Heart Transplant Operation 11. Physiology of the Transplanted Heart Management of the Transplant Patient 12. Management of the Recipient During the Transplant Hospitalization 13. Immunosuppressive Modalities 14. Cardiac Allograft Rejection 15. Infections After Heart (and Heart/Lung) Transplantation Long-Term Outcome After Heart Transplantation 16. Survival After Heart Transplantation 17. Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy (Chronic Rejection) 18. Other Long-Term Complications 19. Quality of Life After Heart Transplantation Special Situations in Heart Transplantation 20. Pediatric Heart Transplantation 21. Combined Heart and Other Organ Transplantation 22. Cardiac Retransplantation 23. Xenotransplantation 24. Resource Allocation in Heart Transplantation