title: Adult cardiac transplantation: a review of perioperative management Part-I.
abstract: Cardiac allotransplantation has, over the years, become the established therapeutic modality for patients with end-stage heart failure. Significant advances in immunosuppressive therapy have dramatically improved the outcome of heart transplantation over the past four decades. This review will focus on the anaesthetic challenges involved in the perioperative management of these complex patients as well as some of the proposed alternatives to transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Division, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. ramakrishna.harish@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Harish
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ramakrishna
authors.forename: Dawn E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Jaroszewski
authors.forename: Francisco A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Arabia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods*; D005544:Forecasting; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D014019:Tissue Donors; D055815:Young Adult