title: [Selection and evaluation of candidate patients for heart transplant].
abstract: Cardiac transplantation is now a well-accepted therapy for patients with advanced heart failure. In appropriately selected recipients, it has shown to significantly improve the survival and quality of life. The shortage of appropriate cardiac donor hearts, the costs of cardiac transplantation and its associated long-term medical follow-up, and the potential morbidity and mortality associated with the procedure and with life after transplantation mandates the judicious application of cardiac transplantation to appropriate recipients. A review of current indications, contraindications and evaluation of patients for cardiac transplantation is presented.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Hospital Clínico Universidad Católica de Chile. pcastro@osler.med.puc.cl
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Castro
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Bourge
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Jalil
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Martínez
mesh_terms: D000075202:Contraindications; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000191:economics / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection
vernacular_title: Selección y evaluación de pacientes candidatos a trasplante cardíaco.