title: [New life from the heart: assessment and management of heart transplant patients].
abstract: Patients who receive heart transplantation surgery following end-stage cardiac failure benefit from efforts to improve their post-surgical quality of life. Assessing and managing perioperative care play an important role in heart transplantation. Evaluations of donor and recipient should be conducted carefully and recommended candidates should by vetted by a qualified heart transplantation committee. The operative procedure is different from general cardiac surgery, and organ preservation is a key step in linking the donor to the recipient. Postoperative infection control and administration of immunosuppressive agents further affect the outcome of heart transplantation. Based on a review of articles and our clinical care experience, we focus on the assessment and the management of heart transplantation in this article.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Jenn-Yeu
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Shu-Hua
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Ou
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Pai-Hui
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Chien-Ting
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Shih-Ying
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Sung
authors.affiliation: Tri-Service General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC. sung1500@mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Chien-Sung
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Tsai
mesh_terms: D006333:Heart Failure / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D012196:Review Literature as Topic; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: heart failure; heart transplantation; preoperative assessment