TY - JOUR
T1 - Trasplante cardiaco en Monterrey, Nuevo León
AU - Herrera-Garza, Eduardo Heberto
AU - Molina-Gamboa, Julio David
AU - Ortega-Durán, Óscar Alejandro
AU - Chavarría-Martínez, Uriel
AU - Martínez-Chapa, Héctor David
AU - Elizondo-Sifuentes, Luis Ángel
AU - De-La-Fuente-Magallanes, Felipe De Jesús
AU - Muñiz-García, Arturo
AU - Decanini-Arcaute, Horacio
AU - Ibarra-Flores, Marcos
AU - Nacoud-Askar, Alfredo
AU - Herrera-Garza, José Luis
AU - Torre, Guillermo
PY - 2011/9/1
Y1 - 2011/9/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Heart transplant
KW - Marfan syndrome
KW - Sirolimus
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M3 - Article
C2 - 22916618
AN - SCOPUS:84865317520
SN - 0034-8376
VL - 63
SP - 91
EP - 95
JO - Revista de Investigacion Clinica
JF - Revista de Investigacion Clinica
IS - SUPPL. 1
ER -