Costs and Benefits of the Heart Transplant Programmes at Harefield and Papworth Hospitals (Department of Health and Social Security, Research Report No. 12, HMSO, London, 1985) pp. viii + 171, ISBN 0-11-321033-7Kaye Brown
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Although initially intended to explore costs only, Sir Terence and his colleagues stressed the importance of assessing the benefits of heart transplant on patients' duration and quality of life. The study ultimately concluded that there was 'little do...
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or severe heart disease. When other medical or surgical treatments failed, the most common procedure is to take for operating heart, with or without both lungs. When patients suffer from other circulatory conditions related to their heart condition, they are less suitable for a heart transplant. ...
The use of hepatitis C virus (HCV) viremic donors increased the heart donor pool, and reduced waitlist time and mortality among first-time single-organ heart transplant (HT) candidates without compromising their post-transplant survival. The outcomes of heart re-transplantation (re-HT) with the...