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Postoperative Care of Adult Cardiac Transplant Patients

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Cardiac transplantation remains the definitive therapy for end-stage heart failure. Meticulous postoperative management is essential for optimizing successful outcomes in this relatively complex patient cohort. While the critical care considerations of heart transplant recipients are largely similar to that of other cardiac surgery patients, there exist important transplant-specific factors which require attention.

This chapter provides a concise overview of post-transplant critical care. Key topics include initial evaluation, operative considerations, post-transplant physiology, hemodynamic management, dysrhythmias, immunosuppression, and organ-system based assessment and optimization.

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  1. University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Paul A. Perry M.D.

  2. Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Fardad Esmailian M.D.

  3. Heart Transplantation, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Fardad Esmailian M.D.

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Perry, P.A., Esmailian, F. (2018). Postoperative Care of Adult Cardiac Transplant Patients. In: Dabbagh, A., Esmailian, F., Aranki, S. (eds) Postoperative Critical Care for Adult Cardiac Surgical Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75747-6_19

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