Heart Transplantation: Indications, Postoperative Management and Long-Term Outcomes

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Cardiologist, Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Argentina

Series: Cardiology Research and Clinical Developments
BISAC: MED010000; MED085040
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/KNCI5528

Target Audience: This book is intended for cardiology fellows in training, surgeons, cardiologists, internists, and other health professionals involved in the care of heart transplant patients.

Review
“Heart Transplantation: Indications, Postoperative Management and Long-Term Outcomes is a didactic book for the healthcare professional that is involved in the management of heart transplant patients. It includes the extensive experience of the exceptional health professionals of the Favaloro Foundation University Hospital in the care of this special population.” – Alejandro Bertolotti, MD, Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Description
Heart failure is an increasingly prevalent syndrome worldwide with a high impact on quality of life and survival. Although there have been great advances in the treatment of this condition that effectively increase survival, mortality remains unacceptably high, exceeding 40% at 5 years, which is worse than a large number of cancers. Furthermore, patients with advanced heart failure are a particular subgroup with higher hospitalizations and mortality, with a short-term survival that can be as low as 50% in the case of cardiogenic shock. Heart transplantation remains the gold standard treatment for these patients when other pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions have failed, with a 1-year survival of approximately 90%. However, not all patients are suitable candidates for this procedure, and knowing the indications as well as the contraindications for heart transplantation is essential for appropriate patient selection.

Heart Transplantation: Indications, Postoperative Management and Long-Term Outcomes is a highly illustrated, didactic book that comprehensively describes the pretransplant assessment of the advanced heart failure patient, the perioperative management of heart transplantation, and the early and late complications of the heart transplant recipient. It also covers special situations in heart transplantation such as Chagas cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease, hypertrophic/restrictive cardiomyopathy and pediatric heart transplantation.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. Pretransplantation Assessment

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Patient with Heart Failure
Roxana Daniela Ratto
Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 2. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Heart Transplant Candidates
Jorge Osvaldo Cáneva, Juan Manuel Ossés and Rosalía Ahumada
Exercise Physiopathology Laboratory, Pneumonology Section, Department of Medicine, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 3. Invasive Hemodynamic Assessment in the Heart Transplant Candidate: Swan-Ganz Catheter
Cristhian Emmanuel Scatularo
Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 4. Intraaortic Balloon Pump in Heart Transplantation
Alejandro Cicolini¹ and Elian Facundo Giordanino²
¹Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
²Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 5. Short-Term Mechanical Circulatory Support in Heart Transplant Candidates
Mariano Martin Candioti Lehmann and Elian Facundo Giordanino
Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 6. Indications and Contraindications for Heart Transplantation
Elian Facundo Giordanino
Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 7. Psychosocial Evaluation in Heart Transplantation
Silvia Elsa Moscoloni and Liliana Martinez
Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Part II. Perioperative Management of Heart Transplantation

Chapter 8. Surgical Techniques for Heart Transplantation
Daniel Oscar Absi
Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 9. Graft Dysfunction and Postoperative Management of Heart Transplantation
María Florencia Renedo
Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Part III. Follow-Up Care after Heart Transplantation

Chapter 10. Echocardiography in Heart Transplant Recipients
José Fabian Salmo, Diego Sánchez Luceros, Guillermo Eduardo Ganum, Juan Alberto Moukarzel, Milagros Seijo Behety and Eduardo Guevara
Echocardiography Department, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 11. Cardiac Allograft Rejection: Diagnosis and Treatment
Elian Facundo Giordanino¹, Karin Padros² and Carlos Vigliano³
¹Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
²Histocompatibility, PRICAI-Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
³Pathology department, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 12. Diagnosis and Follow-Up of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy
Elian Facundo Giordanino
Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 13. Infectious Diseases in Heart Transplantation
Sergio Daniel Andino Di Masi¹, Rocío Emilia Gago², Patricia Lourdes Giorgio³, Melisa Belén Martínez Rios4, Natalia Rosana Pujato5, and Silvina Villamandos6
¹Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
²Austral University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
³British Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
4Mendoza Central Hospital, Mendoza, Argentina
5ITAC Institute of Transplantation and High Complexity, Buenos Aires, Argentina
6Juana F. Cabral. Corrientes Cardiology Institute, Corrientes, Argentina

Chapter 14. Nursing Care and Follow-Up of the Heart Transplant Patient
Teresa Patricia Ibañez, Norma Graciela Yakobas and Orlando Omar Zacarias
Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Part IV. Special Situations

Chapter 15. Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Julio Jorge Trentadue
Department of Pediatrics, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 16. Heart Transplantation in Chagas Cardiomyopathy
Carlos Vigliano and Liliana Favaloro²
¹Pathology Department, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
²Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 17. Heart Transplantation in Congenital Heart Disease
Federico Ignacio Zeppa
Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 18. Heart Transplantation in Familial Hypertrophic/Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
Adrián Fernández and Alejandro Quiroga
Familial Cardiomyopathies Working Group, Clinical Cardiology Service, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

About the Editor

List of Reviewers and Contributors

Index

Editor’s ORCID iD

Elian Giordanino – https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7380-4753

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