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Cardiac transplant and exercise cardiac rehabilitation
AbstractCardiac transplantation is the final therapeutic option for patients with end-stage heart failure. Most patients experience a favorable functional ability post-transplant. However, episodes of acute rejection, and multiple comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease and cardiac allograft vasculopathy are common. The number of transplants has increased steadily over the past two decades with 3,817 operations performed in the United States in 2021. Patients have abnormal exercise physiologic responses related to surgical cardiac denervation, diastolic dysfunction, and the legacy of r...
Source: Heart Failure Reviews - April 4, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

VCA Deceased Donors in the United States
Conclusions. donors are a demographically and clinically diverse group. Understanding this diversity and future trends in VCA donor characteristics is critical in supporting this life-changing field of transplantation.
Source: Transplantation - May 1, 2019 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Original Clinical Science—General Source Type: research

Characteristics and Performance of Unilateral Kidney Transplants from Deceased Donors.
CONCLUSIONS: A large number of discarded kidneys were procured from donors whose contralateral kidneys were transplanted with good post-transplant outcomes. PMID: 29217537 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - December 7, 2017 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Husain SA, Chiles MC, Lee S, Pastan SO, Patzer RE, Tanriover B, Ratner LE, Mohan S Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research