[Standard radiography of the chest in heart transplantation. Our experience]

In the cardiovascular Surgery Department of the University of Padua, where the first heart transplant operation in Italy took place in November, 14, 1985, in a period of six months, nine heart transplants have been performed. The post-operative follow-up of these patients included, among other tests, a chest X-ray, which has given us many morphological and functional data concerning both the circulatory and the pulmonary systems.