Annals ofTransplants

Volume: 2 - Number: 14 - December 15, 2004

Outstanding

Orthotopic Heart Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease: An Alternative for High-Risk Fontan Candidates?

Simvastatin Initiated Early After Heart Transplantation: 8-Year Prospective Experience

Clinical Determinants of Ventricular Sympathetic Reinnervation After Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

Use of Rapamycin Slows Progression of Cardiac Transplantation Vasculopathy

Basic science reports

Intramyocardial Transplantation of Autologous Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Therapeutic Neovascularization of Myocardial Ischemia

Isolation and Transplantation of Autologous Circulating Endothelial Cells Into Denuded Vessels and Prosthetic Grafts: Implications for Cell-Based Vascular Therapy

Hybrid Cell–Gene Therapy for Pulmonary Hypertension Based on Phagocytosing Action of Endothelial Progenitor Cells

Briefs Communications

Molecular Imaging of Cardiac Cell Transplantation in Living Animals Using Optical Bioluminescence and Positron Emission Tomography

Bone Marrow–Derived Cardiomyocytes Are Present in Adult Human Heart: A Study of Gender-Mismatched Bone Marrow Transplantation Patients

Cell transplantation and tissue engineering

Transplantation of Bone Marrow–Derived Mononuclear Cells in Ischemic Apolipoprotein E–Knockout Mice Accelerates Atherosclerosis Without Altering Plaque Composition

Transplanted Skeletal Myoblasts Can Fully Replace the Infarcted Myocardium When They Survive in the Host in Large Numbers

Transplantation of Autologous Fresh Bone Marrow Into Infarcted Myocardium: A Word of Caution

Clinical investigation and reports

Simvastatin Initiated Early After Heart Transplantation: 8-Year Prospective Experience

Clinical Determinants of Ventricular Sympathetic Reinnervation After Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

Use of Rapamycin Slows Progression of Cardiac Transplantation Vasculopathy

Transplantation of Progenitor Cells and Regeneration Enhancement in Acute Myocardial Infarction (TOPCARE-AMI)

Repair of Infarcted Myocardium by Autologous Intracoronary Mononuclear Bone Marrow Cell Transplantation in Humans

Comparison of Intracardiac Cell Transplantation: Autologous Skeletal Myoblasts Versus Bone Marrow Cells

Transendocardial, Autologous Bone Marrow Cell Transplantation for Severe, Chronic Ischemic Heart Failure

Donor Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage Is Associated With Systemic Activation of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 and Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 and Subsequent Development of Coronary Vasculopathy in the Heart Transplant Recipient

Congenits Cardiovascular Surgery

Orthotopic Heart Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease: An Alternative for High-Risk Fontan Candidates?

Correspondence

Bone Marrow-Derived Cell Transplantation for Acute Myocardial Ischemia • Response

Expert reviews

Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Bridges to Transplantation, Recovery, and Destination for Whom?

Mechanical circulatory support

Worldwide Experience With the MicroMed DeBakey Ventricular Assist Device® as a Bridge to Transplantation

Special Report

Recommendations of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Heart and Lung Xenotransplantation Working Group

Thoracic transplantation and mechanical support for congestive heart failure

Human Cytomegalovirus Immediate-Early Protein IE2–86, but not IE1–72, Causes Graft Coronary Arteriopathy in the Transplanted Rat Heart

Duration of Graft Cold Ischemia Does Not Affect Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients

Cellular Cardiomyoplasty of Cardiac Fibroblasts by Adenoviral Delivery of MyoD Ex Vivo: An Unlimited Source of Cells for Myocardial Repair

Combined Procedure of Surgical Repair and Cell Transplantation for Left Ventricular Aneurysm: An Experimental Study

Long-Term Efficacy of Myoblast Transplantation on Regional Structure and Function After Myocardial Infarction