Cardiac transplantation: an overview of recipient selection.
Cardiac transplantation is an accepted treatment for end-stage heart disease. Potential recipients are carefully screened in order to best place the short supply of donor organs with the best recipient. The success of heart transplantation in the United States today is directly related to careful donor and recipient selection criteria and improvements in immunosuppression.
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D000367:Age Factors; D000075202:Contraindications; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D011593:Psychology, Social