title: [Pre-transplant evaluation: which patients for the active list?].
abstract: Cardiac transplantation has been shown to significantly improve the survival and quality of life of selected patients with advanced heart failure. The shortage of appropriate donor hearts, the costs of cardiac transplantation and its associated morbidity, requiring long-term medical follow-up, mandates the judicious application of cardiac transplantation to appropriate recipients. A review of current indications, contraindications and initial evaluation of patients for cardiac transplantation is presented.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Cardiologia, Hospital de Santa Marta, Lisboa.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Soares
mesh_terms: D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000601:surgery; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000628:therapy; D000075202:Contraindications; D004232:Diuretics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000592:standards*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D018579:Patient Selection; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011379:Prognosis; D013318:Stroke Volume; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D004232:Diuretics