Annals ofTransplants

Volume: 4 - Number: 37 - December 15, 2006

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Frequency and impact of delayed decisions regarding heart transplantation on long-term outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure

Does it make sense to train plumbers as electricians?

Health Insurance and Cardiac Transplantation: A Call for Reform

Angiotensin II receptors from peritransplantation through first-year post-transplantation and the risk of transplant coronary artery disease

BNP and heart failure

B-type natriuretic peptide and peak exercise oxygen consumption provide independent information for risk stratification in patients with stable congestive heart failure

Cardiac Failure

Effect of kidney transplantation on left ventricular systolic dysfunction and congestive heart failure in patients with end-stage renal disease

Cardiac Image

Coronary Stenosis Detection by 16-Slice Computed Tomography in Heart Transplant Patients: Comparison With Conventional Angiography and Impact on Clinical Management

Cardiac imaging

Cross-Sectional Assessment of the Effect of Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation on Resting Left Ventricular Energy Metabolism in Type 1 Diabetic-Uremic Patients: A Phosphorous-31 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study

Cardiac transplantation

Frequency and impact of delayed decisions regarding heart transplantation on long-term outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure

Heart transplantation: the increasing challenges of evidence-based decision-making

Cardiac transplants and assist device

Angiotensin II receptors from peritransplantation through first-year post-transplantation and the risk of transplant coronary artery disease

Communication

Comparison of human skeletal myoblasts and bone marrow-derived CD133+ progenitors for the repair of infarcted myocardium

Congenital Heart Disease

Cardiac transplantation after the Fontan or Glenn procedure

Echocardiography and heart failure

Electrocardiography and Doppler echocardiography for risk stratification in patients with chronic heart failure: Incremental prognostic value of QRS duration and a restrictive mitral filling pattern

Health police

Health Insurance and Cardiac Transplantation: A Call for Reform

Heart failure and transplants

Glucose intolerance, as reflected by hemoglobin a1c level, is associated with the incidence and severity of transplant coronary artery disease

Left ventricular dysfunction

Impact of mitral valve annuloplasty on mortality risk in patients with mitral regurgitation and left ventricular systolic dysfunction

Reviews

Comparative analysis of clinical trials and evidence-based treatment algorithm in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Ventricular assist devices

Effects of Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy on Ventricular Arrhythmias

Viewpoints

Does it make sense to train plumbers as electricians?