Guidelines for heart transplantation.

Listing criteria for heart transplantation: International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation guidelines for the care of cardiac transplant candidates--2006.

Statin Use in Very Elderly Individuals, 1999-2012.

4. Hunt SA, AbrahamWT, Chin MH, et al; American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines; American College of Chest Physicians; International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation; Heart Rhythm Society. ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis andManagement of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult: a report of the American College of Cardiolog...

Indications for Heart Transplantation in Pediatric Heart Disease

Background—Since the initial utilization of heart transplantation as therapy for end-stage pediatric heart disease, improvements have occurred in outcomes with heart transplantation and surgical therapies for congenital heart disease along with the application of medical therapies to pediatric heart failure that have improved outcomes in adults. These events justify a reevaluation of the indica...

What's new in hypertension 2010?

Efficacy of rosuvastatin among men and women with moderate chronic kidney disease and elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein: a secondary analysis from the JUPITER (Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin) trial. Aspirin is beneficial in hypertensive patients with chronic kidney disease: a post-hoc subgroup analysis of a randomized ...

Psychological guidelines in the management of paediatric organ transplantation.

Organ transplantation is increasingly being seen as the preferred treatment for several life threatening disorders of childhood. Though the early history of liver transplantation in the United Kingdom was not promising (only seven transplants were carried out on children under the age of 16 by 1983 and none survived longer than seven weeks), current one year survival rates exceed 60%. 1 Heart a...

A consensus document for the selection of lung transplant candidates: 2014--an update from the Pulmonary Transplantation Council of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.

The appropriate selection of lung transplant recipients is an important determinant of outcomes. This consensus document is an update of the recipient selection guidelines published in 2006. The Pulmonary Council of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) organized a Writing Committee of international experts to provide consensus opinion regarding the appropriate ti...