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Contemporary Survival in Heart Transplantation

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Contemporary Heart Transplantation

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Abstract

The growing prevalence of heart failure in the worldwide population coupled with its high socioeconomic burden has escalated interest in any treatment modality that can dramatically affect the estimated 50% 5-year mortality commonly associated with heart failure. Cardiac transplantation remains the definitive therapy for most patients with advanced heart failure and confers improvements in both survival and quality of life. Since the first cardiac transplant in 1967, the transplant community has been on a relentless pursuit to perfect this highly individualized and resource-heavy treatment modality. As a result of major advances in nearly every component of the heart transplant process, survival has incrementally improved in every decade, and most patients are surviving decades, and not months to years, after their transplant. This chapter examines the multitude of factors, from pre-transplant comorbidities, to surgical variables, to post-transplant management and comorbidities that have been proven to affect short-, intermediate-, and long-term survival in heart transplant recipients.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Cardiology Department, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Hampton A. Crimm

  2. Internal Medicine, Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, Camp Lejeune, NC, USA

    Nicholas R. Fiacco

  3. Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant, INOVA Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church VA, USA

    M. Casey Flanagan

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  1. Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, VA, USA

    Linda Bogar

  2. Heart Failure/Transplant Cardiologist, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, OH, USA

    Maria Mountis

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Crimm, H.A., Fiacco, N.R., Flanagan, M.C. (2020). Contemporary Survival in Heart Transplantation. In: Bogar, L., Mountis, M. (eds) Contemporary Heart Transplantation. Organ and Tissue Transplantation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33280-2_35-1

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