Management of patients with a cardiac transplant.
Cardiac transplantation is now a common treatment for cardiac failure. Although patients are living longer as supportive therapy improves, they still have a high rate of cardiac and non-cardiac surgical intervention. Careful anaesthetic management is required, including consideration of physiological changes and the consequences of drug therapy. In the absence of graft rejection, the outcome is generally good.
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Department of Anaesthesia, Harefield Hospital, Middlesex.
D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods* / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care
D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents