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The dawn of the ISHLT Mechanical Assisted Circulatory Support (IMACS) Registry: Fulfilling our mission
February 2012 (Vol. 31 | No. 2 | Pages 115-116)
James K. Kirklin, Mandeep R. Mehra
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The Fourth INTERMACS Annual Report: 4,000 implants and counting
February 2012 (Vol. 31 | No. 2 | Pages 117-126)
James K. Kirklin, David C. Naftel, Robert L. Kormos, Lynne W. Stevenson, Francis D. Pagani, Marissa A. Miller, J. Timothy Baldwin, James B. Young

The dawn of the ISHLT Mechanical Assisted Circulatory Support (IMACS) Registry: Fulfilling our mission
February 2012 (Vol. 31 | No. 2 | Pages 115-116)
James K. Kirklin, Mandeep R. Mehra
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The Fourth INTERMACS Annual Report: 4,000 implants and counting
February 2012 (Vol. 31 | No. 2 | Pages 117-126)
James K. Kirklin, David C. Naftel, Robert L. Kormos, Lynne W. Stevenson, Francis D. Pagani, Marissa A. Miller, J. Timothy Baldwin, James B. Young
Use of sublingual tacrolimus in lung transplant recipients
February 2012 (Vol. 31 | No. 2 | Pages 127-132)
Katherine D. Watkins, Rebecca F. Boettger, Katherine M. Hanger, Lorriana E. Leard, Jeffrey A. Golden, Charles W. Hoopes, Jonathan P. Singer
Comparison of risk factors and outcomes for pediatric patients listed for heart transplantation after bidirectional Glenn and after Fontan: An analysis from the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study
February 2012 (Vol. 31 | No. 2 | Pages 133-139)
Joshua R. Kovach, David C. Naftel, F. Bennett Pearce, Margaret A. Tresler, R. Erik Edens, Jeffrey H. Shuhaiber, Elizabeth D. Blume, Francis Fynn-Thompson, James K. Kirklin, Steven D. Zangwill
Decision tree for adjuvant right ventricular support in patients receiving a left ventricular assist device
February 2012 (Vol. 31 | No. 2 | Pages 140-149)
Yajuan Wang, Marc A. Simon, Pramod Bonde, Bronwyn U. Harris, Jeffrey J. Teuteberg, Robert L. Kormos, James F. Antaki

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Different prognostic impact of the tissue Doppler-derived E/e′ ratio on mortality in Chagas cardiomyopathy patients with heart failure
03 February 2012
Maria Pereira Nunes, Enrico Antônio Colosimo, Rodrigo Citton Padilha Reis, Marcia M. Barbosa, José Luiz Padilha da Silva, Felipe Barbosa, Fernando Antônio Botoni, Antônio Luiz Ribeiro, Manoel Otávio Rocha
Background: Risk assessment of Chagas cardiomyopathy patients is essential for clinical decision making. The ratio of the ratio of early transmitral velocity to tissue Doppler mitral annular early dia...
The role of the Heart Failure Survival Score and psychosocial stress in predicting event-free survival in patients referred for heart transplantation
02 February 2012
Gerdi Weidner, Heike Spaderna
We read with interest the article “Selecting patients for heart transplantation: Comparison of the Heart Failure Survival Score (HFSS) and the Seattle Heart Failure Model (SHFM)” by Goda et al. Their ...
Utility of exercise stress echocardiography in pediatric cardiac transplant recipients: A single-center experience
02 February 2012
Ming Hui Chen, Elizabeth Abernathey, Fatima Lunze, Steven D. Colan, Stephen O'Neill, Lisa Bergersen, Tal Geva, Elizabeth D. Blume
Background: Annual coronary angiography (ANG) to assess for significant epicardial coronary artery disease (CAD) is an integral part of follow-up care for pediatric cardiac transplant recipients at Ch...
Prognostic factors in severe pulmonary hypertension patients who need parenteral prostanoid therapy: The impact of late referral
30 January 2012
Roberto Badagliacca, Beatrice Pezzuto, Roberto Poscia, Massimo Mancone, Silvia Papa, Serena Marcon, Gabriele Valli, Gennaro Sardella, Fabio Ferrante, Carlo Iacoboni, Daniela Parola, Francesco Fedele, Carmine Dario Vizza
Background: Oral drugs have made the treatment of pulmonary hypertension (PH) feasible in non-expert centers, which could delay patient access to prostanoid therapy. Methods: Fifty-seven consecutive p...
Inhibition of renin angiotensin aldosterone system causes abrogation of obliterative airways disease through inhibition of tumor necrosis factor-α–dependant interleukin-17
30 January 2012
Joseph Weber, Venkataswarup Tiriveedhi, Masashi Takenaka, Wei Lu, Ramsey Hachem, Elbert Trulock, G. Alec Patterson, T. Mohanakumar
Background: Alloimmune-induced immune responses to self-antigens are involved in the development of chronic lung allograft rejection. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin I...

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International Guidelines for the Selection of Lung Transplant Candidates: 2006 Update—A Consensus Report From the Pulmonary Scientific Council of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
July 2006 (Vol. 25 | No. 7 | Pages 745-755)
Jonathan B. Orens, Marc Estenne, Selim Arcasoy, John V. Conte, Paul Corris, Jim J. Egan, Thomas Egan, Shaf Keshavjee, Christiane Knoop, Robert Kotloff, Fernando J. Martinez, Steven Nathan, Scott Palmer, Alec Patterson, Lianne Singer, Gregory Snell, Sean Studer, J.L. Vachiery, Allan R. Glanville
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Listing Criteria for Heart Transplantation: International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for the Care of Cardiac Transplant Candidates—2006
September 2006 (Vol. 25 | No. 9 | Pages 1024-1042)
Mandeep R. Mehra, Jon Kobashigawa, Randall Starling, Stuart Russell, Patricia A. Uber, Jayan Parameshwar, Paul Mohacsi, Sharon Augustine, Keith Aaronson, Mark Barr
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The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for the care of heart transplant recipients
August 2010 (Vol. 29 | No. 8 | Pages 914-956)
Maria Rosa Costanzo, Maria Rosa Costanzo, Anne Dipchand, Randall Starling, Allen Anderson, Michael Chan, Shashank Desai, Savitri Fedson, Patrick Fisher, Gonzalo Gonzales-Stawinski, Luigi Martinelli, David McGiffin, Francesco Parisi, Jon Smith, David Taylor, Bruno Meiser, Steven Webber, David Baran, Michael Carboni, Thomas Dengler, David Feldman, Maria Frigerio, Abdallah Kfoury, Daniel Kim, Jon Kobashigawa, Michael Shullo, Josef Stehlik, Jeffrey Teuteberg, Patricia Uber, Andreas Zuckermann, Sharon Hunt, Michael Burch, Geetha Bhat, Charles Canter, Richard Chinnock, Marisa Crespo-Leiro, Reynolds Delgado, Fabienne Dobbels, Kathleen Grady, Kao W, Jaqueline Lamour, Gareth Parry, Jignesh Patel, Daniela Pini, Sean Pinney, Jeffrey Towbin, Gene Wolfel, Diego Delgado, Howard Eisen, Lee Goldberg, Jeff Hosenpud, Maryl Johnson, Anne Keogh, Clive Lewis, John O'Connell, Joseph Rogers, Heather Ross, Stuart Russell, Johan Vanhaecke
The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Twenty-eighth Adult Heart Transplant Report—2011
October 2011 (Vol. 30 | No. 10 | Pages 1078-1094)
Josef Stehlik, Leah B. Edwards, Anna Y. Kucheryavaya, Christian Benden, Jason D. Christie, Fabienne Dobbels, Richard Kirk, Axel O. Rahmel, Marshall I. Hertz
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Exercise blood pressure response during assisted circulatory support: Comparison of the total artifical heart with a left ventricular assist device during rehabilitation
November 2011 (Vol. 30 | No. 11 | Pages 1207-1213)
Harajeshwar S. Kohli, Justin Canada, Ross Arena, Daniel G. Tang, Mary Ann Peberdy, Suzanne Harton, Maureen Flattery, Kelly Doolin, Gundars J. Katlaps, Michael L. Hess, Vigneshwar Kasirajan, Keyur B. Shah

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