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ArticleCurrent treatment options in cardiovascular medicine2012

New issues in heart transplantation for heart failure.

Michelle M Kittleson

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Article in Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. 3D Printing of Personalized Thick and Perfusable Cardiac Patches and Hearts.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Michelle M Kittleson, 8536 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 301, Beverly Hills, CA, 90211, USA, michelle.kittleson@cshs.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

opinion statementHeart transplantation is the preferred therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure with refractory symptoms despite optimal medical and device therapy. The major impediment to survival is rejection and infection in the short term and cardiac allograft vasculopathy and malignancy in the long term. Current therapies are focused on the prevention and treatment of rejection and limiting the long-term problems of cardiac allograft vasculopathy and malignancy. Advances in monitoring assays now allow better assessment of rejection and the level of immune response. This will allow clinicians, in the future, to tailor current therapies to the needs of individual heart transplant recipients to maximize benefit and minimize toxicity.

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