Selection of Patients for Cardiac Transplantation
I. Cardiac Transplantation: What every physician needs to know. Cardiac transplantation is the treatment of choice for selected patients with end-stage heart failure. It is estimated that there are 5,700,000 adults in the United States being treated for heart failure (HF), and 620,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Registries suggest that between 5% and…
