Combined Heart and Kidney Transplantation – Is There a Protective Effect Against Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Using Intravascular Ultrasound?

In patients awaiting heart transplantation (HTx), end-stage disease of a second organ may occasionally require consideration of simultaneous multiorgan transplantation. As cardiac and renal disease are related physiologically and often co-exist, the population of combined heart and kidney transplantation (HKTx) has significantly increased over the last few years along with the growing number of patients wait listed for heart.1,2 Interestingly, short-term survival rates after HKTx have been reported to be comparable to those after isolated HTx.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - June 18, 2019 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Takuma Sato, Richard Cheng, Babak Azarbal, Michelle Kittleson, Jignesh Patel, Lawrence Czer, Ryan Levine, Sadia Dimbil, Michael Olymbios, Toshihisa Anzai, Evan Kransdorf, David H. Chang, Michele A. Hamilton, Fardad Esmailian, Jon Kobashigawa Tags: Original Clinical Science Source Type: research