Transplantation Reviews
Transplant procedures are frequently performed outside the regular working hours (after hours). In general surgery, several studies observed worse outcomes for operations performed after hours. The predetermined hypothesis was that patients undergoing transplantation during after hours might suffer from an excess in post-operative mortality and morbidity...
Donor-specific antibodies (DSA) are integral to the development of antibody-mediated rejection (AMR). Chronic AMR is associated with high mortality and an increased risk for cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). Anti-donor HLA antibodies are present in 3–11% of patients at the time of heart transplantation (HTx), with de novo DSA (predominantly anti-HLA...
Although contraindicated for decades, heart transplantation (HT) has finally become a feasible therapeutic option for the treatment of Chagasic patients with end-stage heart failure. Part of the success in achieving acceptable survival rates after HT is due to the enhancement of the pharmacological management of allograft rejection and reactivation...
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