[Heart transplant in Monterrey, Nuevo León]. / Trasplante cardiaco en Monterrey, Nuevo León.
Rev Invest Clin
; 63 Suppl 1: 91-5, 2011 Sep.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22916618
Heart failure constantly increases its incidence and prevalence in our society, it was imperative to start a heart transplant program to improve the survival rates of patients with end stages of the disease. Legal issues made impossible to transplant patients out of Mexico City until recent years. Even with an acute hemodynamic and clinic improvement after the transplant, these patients frequently develop complications such as graft rejection or opportunistic infections due to the immunosuppressive schemes increasing the morbidity and mortality of the procedure. In the present article we report the experience acquired with 65 heart transplant patients from 4 transplant programs in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, one of them from the socialized system and the other three from private hospitals. Our program not only has successfully transplanted patients with advanced age but, for the first time in Latin America we have transplanted patients assisted with the ambulatory Thoratec TLC II system. Even that we have faced obstacles like a newly started donation culture in our population and limited resources, our patient's survival rate push us to continue working with these very ill population.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Trasplante de Corazón
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
Mexico
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Rev Invest Clin
Asunto de la revista:
MEDICINA
Año:
2011
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
México