European transplant programs - what can we learn?, B. Cohen and G. Persijn. Part 1 Cardiac transplantation - donor heart: brain death and myocardial contractility - responsiveness of the contractile apparatus for calcium in human hearts after epinephrine stimulation, F. Vahl et al; retrograde blood cardioplegia for myocardial preservation during heart transplantation, J.N. Bhayana et al; energy metabolism in hypothermically stored organs - differences between lungs and abdominal organs, M. Schilling et al; prostaglandin E[1] and heart transplantation, F. Iberer et al. Part 2 Basic research: successful freezing preservation and transplantation of mammalian hearts stored in hypertonic glucose solution at high subzero temperatures, A. El Gamel et al; detection of experimental cardiac rejection - preliminary results of troponin-T, B.H. Walpoth et al; al; focal rejection - a cause of false negative biopsy results?, M. Breuer et al. Part 3 Mechanical circulatory support: long-term ventricular support with the heartmate in patients undergoing bridge-to-transplant operations, O.H. Frazier; clinical use of the Abiomed BVS 5000 ventricular assist device, P. Marquardt et al; left ventricular versus biventricular assist device support as a bridge to cardiac transplantation, H. Posival et al. Part 4 Clinical aspects: immunosuppression in cardiac transplantation, J.B. O'Connell; clinical presentation and therapy of lymphoproliferative disease after heart and lung transplantation, I. Kober et al; metabolic chronotropic relation after orthotopic heart transplantation, L. Ferreira et al; fatty acid metabolism of the myocardium during stress in patients with transplanted hearts and with cardiomyopathy, S. Mertens et al; intracoronary ultrasound (ICUS) with 3,5 F 20- and 30 MHz transducers through 7 F guiding catheter during routine angiography - first results in transplant recipients, H.H. Ohlmeier et al. Part 5 Pediatric heart transplantation: heart transplantation among newborns, L.L. Bailey et al; clinical experience with pediatric heart transplantation, J. Bauer et al. Part 6 Thoracic organ transplantation in the future: the rescue effect of 15-deoxyspergualin for acute rejection on heart transplantation using a rat model, Y. Bonkohara et al; reversible and non-reversible congestive cardiomyopathy in childhood-differentiation by in vivo assessment of left ventricular free fatty acid extraction, W.-R. Thies et al; allogeneic heart transplantation following xenogeneic bridging, J. Pratschke et al; contractile mapping of human recipient hearts, A. Bonz et al.
