Listing and treatment of status 1 patient

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 216-221

  Hankins, Shelley ^a   Mancini, Donna M ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; MILRINONE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GEOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INOTROPISM; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REGISTRATION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035698130     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075200-200109000-00003     Document Type: Article

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4. 24th Bethesda conference: Cardiac transplantation. Task Force 3: Recipient guidelines/prioritization
5. New UNOS rules: Historical background and implications for transplantation management
6. Decreasing survival benefit from cardiac transplantation for outpatients as the waiting list lengthens
7. Does heart transplantation confer additional benefit over medical therapy to patients who have waited > 6 months for heart transplantation?
8. Mortality remains high for outpatient transplant candidates with prolonged (> 6 months) waiting list time
9. The registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Seventeenth official report-2000
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11. Impact of current management practices on early and late death in more than 500 consecutive cardiac transplant recipients
12. Impact of new UNOS listing categories on cost and outcome pre transplant
13. Low incidence of ventricular arrhythmias in patients on low dose parental inotropes at home awaiting cardiac transplant using an external wearable defibrillator
14. Selection criteria for placement of left ventricular assist devices
15. Selection scale predicts patients successfully receiving long-term implantable ventricular assist devices
16. Prediction of right ventricular dysfunction after left ventricular assist device implantation
17. Malignant ventricular arrhythmias are well tolerated in patients receiving long-term left ventricular assist devices
18. The influence of infection on survival and successful transplantation in patients with left ventricular assist devices
19. Intravenous immunoglobulin reduces anti-HLA alloreactivity and shortens waiting time to transplant in highly sensitized left ventricular assist device recipients