Pre- and Postoperative Evaluation of Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure Undergoing Cardiac Transplant – a Descriptive Study

Abstract

Background: Heart transplantation is still the treatment of choice in patients with end-stage heart failure, refractory to medical treatment, in NYHA class III and IV, with dilated cardiomyopathy of various etiologies, including post-myocardial infarction.

Keywords

• end-stage heart failure
• cardiac transplant
• preoperative
• postoperative
• clinical
• laboratory
• viral and bacterial serology