title: [Alternative treatments to heart transplant].
abstract: On the past 40 years it has been a significant advance in the Heart Failure treatment, both medical and electrical devices, percutaneous revascularization, surgery, and circulatory support. With them heart transplantation is no longer an essential treatment. Gradually the other techniques are limiting the role of heart transplantation in the final treatment of Heart Failure.
authors.forename: José Ramón
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Berrazueta Fernández
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans