Cardiac Transplantation (Contemporary Cardiology)
Contributors: Niloo M. Edwards (Editor); Jonathan M. Chen (Editor); Pamela A. Mazzeo (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: February 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781588291813
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Reference; Medical / Nursing; Surgery - General; Medical / Cardiology; Cardiology; Handbooks & Manuals; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Heart; Transplantation
First sentence: Cardiac transplant candidate selection involves the use of prognostic variables to identify patients with end-stage heart failure, combined with a series of empirically derived contraindications to exclude those patients with probable poor outcome from significant comorbidities or high perioperative risk.