학술논문
Analysis of survivors more than 10 years after heart transplantation in the cyclosporine era: Stanford experience
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*HEART transplantation
*CARDIAC surgery
*HEALTH outcome assessment
*TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.
*CYCLOSPORINE
*HYPERTENSION
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ISSN
1053-2498
Abstract
: BackgroundTruly long term survival post heart transplantation has become increasingly frequent over the past two decades.: MethodsWe analyzed multiple clinical outcomes in the cohort of 140 patients in the Stanford database who underwent heart transplantation after the introduction of cyclosporine-based immunosuppression in 1980 and survived >10 years after transplantation.: ResultsWe found generally excellent functional status in these patients, but a high incidence of hypertension, renal dysfunction, and graft CAD as well as malignancy.: ConclusionWith continued improvement in post-transplant survival rates, providing complex care for such long-term recipients as these will assume increasing clinical importance in the everyday practice of transplant medicine and these data highlight the problems to be anticipated. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]