[Radiologic assessment of heart transplantation]

Twenty patients were examined before and after orthotopic transplantation of the heart. The significance of x-ray examination of donors to ascertain brain death was demonstrated. The possibility of x-ray examination of recipients is analyzed. X-Ray criteria of prognostically unfavorable signs for cardiologis patients are defined. The x-ray picture before and after transplantation of the heart was studied. Possible complications in the immediate posttransplantation period are analyzed, as are the potentialities of x-ray detection of chronic crisis of transplanted heart rejection.