title: ["Heart transplantation program" in Piedmont. Results of a 3-year activity].
abstract: Since 1990 the "Heart Transplant Program" has been instituted in the Piemonte Region. Until now the program had regular development according to the number of transplantations and the high quality of clinical results. Sixty heart transplantations has been performed with a 36 month survival close to 80%. Our data demonstrate that after heart transplantation prognosis of end-stage cardiac disease is highly improved either for life expectancy and for quality of life. Our program includes several aspects of scientific research from physiology to clinic, from biochemistry to immunology, from infectivology to pathology, from intensive care to surgery. Several very positive multi disciplinary investigations have been activated.
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Torino, Cattedra di Cardiochirurgia, Ospedale S. Giovanni Battista.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Summa
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Donegani
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pansini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zattera
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Casabona
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morea
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Curtoni
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amoroso
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Dall'Omo
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Delfino
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009313:National Health Programs; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors; D014019:Tissue Donors
vernacular_title: "Programma trapianto di cuore" della Regione Piemonte. Risultati dopo tre anni di attività.