A 12-year-old child with end-stage heart failure due to restrictive cardiomyopathy was submitted to orthotopic heart transplantation. Primary graft dysfunction required venous arterial extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation. Heart function normalized, but complete atrioventricular block remained after 3 weeks. A dual-chamber pacing with transvenous left ventricle pacing through the coronary sinus...

It would have seemed that the problem is relatively simple: graft rejection or coronary artery disease after cardiac transplantation induces edema, inflammation, myocyte damage, necrosis, ischemia, and sometimes fibrosis, resulting in ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction. These should be detectable by echocardiography; yet, the quest for a sufficiently sensitive, specific, and conclus...

It would have seemed that the problem is relatively simple: graft rejection or coronary artery disease after cardiac transplantation induces edema, inflammation, myocyte damage, necrosis, ischemia, and sometimes fibrosis, resulting in ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction. These should be detectable by echocardiography; yet, the quest for a sufficiently sensitive, specific, and conclus...

It would have seemed that the problem is relatively simple: graft rejection or coronary artery disease after cardiac transplantation induces edema, inflammation, myocyte damage, necrosis, ischemia, and sometimes fibrosis, resulting in ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction. These should be detectable by echocardiography; yet, the quest for a sufficiently sensitive, specific, and conclus...

BACKGROUND Transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) is a recognized complication resulting in post-transplant hypertension associated with allograft dysfunction. It is a commonly missed but potentially treatable complication that may present from months to years after transplant surgery. In this retrospective study, we compared management strategies and outcomes of TRAS from 1990 to 2005. METH...

BACKGROUND Early graft dysfunction due to preservation/reperfusion injury represents a dramatic event after liver transplantation. Enhancement of donor organ criteria, in order to cope with the ever increasing donor shortage, further increases graft susceptibility to ischemic alterations. Major parts of post-preservation injury, however, occur at the time of warm reperfusion but not during isch...

Background: Sexual dysfunction is one of the most common problems in men after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). Etiology of sexual dysfunction in these patients may be psychological or organic due to hormonal changes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence and type of sexual dysfunction and changes in serum concentration of sex hormones in male patients undergoing on-pump C...

background:  renal transplantation is the best choose in the end stage renal disease (esrd), and acute rejection and graft dysfunction remain major challenges in the worldwide, even with the advent of new immunosuppressive drugs. the novel cell-based anti-rejection treatments have been studied by using different stem cell sources. in this study, transplantation of autologous-bone-marrow-derived...