Cardiac transplantation in Hawaii.
Clinical cardiac transplantation was successfully introduced 26 years ago, and from an initial experimental status, it has moved forward to become an accepted and well-established treatment modality for end-stage cardiac disease. The first cardiac transplant operation in Hawaii was performed in March 1987; the patient lived for 1 year. A total of 20 heart transplant operations have been performed in 19 patients at St. Francis Medical Center in Honolulu. There has been only one hospital death, and our current one-year survival is 77%, which is similar to national statistics. Our longest survivor is now more than 6 years following transplantation. The incidence of rejection episodes and infectious complications is comparable to other studies.
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Department of Surgery, University of Hawaii, John A. Bums School of Medicine, Honolulu.
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D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006254:Hawaii; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*; D015996:Survival Rate