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Heart transplantation an answer for end-stage heart failure
Lanna Smith1, Jennifer Farroni, Barbara Ryan Baillie
1Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Astley Avenue, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. smithla@musc.edu
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
|January 14, 2004
Abstract:
Heart transplantation remains the best treatment option for end-stage heart failure. For patients who are not candidates for transplantation, better medical management and surgical options in heart failure can improve both the length and quality of a patient's life. Continuing research on xenotransplantation and the total artificial heart may decrease the need for human transplantation in years to come and may allow others with severe heart failure to have a chance at living longer.