Vascular Disease and Surgery

About

Heart transplantation surgery has become the standard treatment for selected patients with end-stage heart failure. Improvements in immunosuppressant, donor procurement, surgical techniques, and post-transplant care have resulted in a substantial decrease in acute allograft rejection, which had previously significantly limited survival of heart transplant recipients.

The number of heart transplants performed worldwide over the last decade has continued to increase annually.

Current challenges include older age of both recipients and donors; an increasing number of transplants performed with mechanical circulatory support; the growing use of combined organ transplants (now more than 4% of all heart transplants); and a high proportion of sensitised patients (those with pre-formed antibodies against human leukocyte antigens, which increased the risk of organ rejection).

Articles

Invasive Detection of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction

Published:

07 March 2023

Citation:

Interventional Cardiology 2023;18:e07.

CAD in Patients Undergoing TAVI

Published:

29 September 2022

Citation:

Interventional Cardiology 2022;17:e13.

Mechanical Circulatory Support in Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Published:

28 June 2022

Citation:

Interventional Cardiology Review 2022;17(Suppl 1):24.

Mechanical Circulatory Support in High-risk Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Published:

28 June 2022

Citation:

Interventional Cardiology Review 2022;17(Suppl 1):23–4.