Elective cardiac retransplantation: A viable option that can be repeated Hannah Copeland, MD, Romana Coelho-Anderson, RN, CCTC, Nicole Mineburg, RN, CCTC, Michael McCarthy, BS, Jack G. Copeland, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 141, Issue 3, Pages 822-827 (March 2011) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.11.027 Copyright © 2011 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Patient survival: 818 patients undergoing primary transplantation are shown in blue, and 23 patients undergoing elective retransplantation are shown in green. Tx, Transplantation. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2011 141, 822-827DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.11.027) Copyright © 2011 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Freedom from rejection: patients undergoing primary transplantation are shown in blue, and patients undergoing retransplantation are shown in green. Tx, Transplantation; ReTx, retransplantation. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2011 141, 822-827DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.11.027) Copyright © 2011 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Freedom from serum creatinine level of greater than 2.25 ml/dL for primary transplant recipients (blue) and retransplant recipients (green). Tx, Transplantation; ReTx, retransplantation. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2011 141, 822-827DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.11.027) Copyright © 2011 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 4 Freedom from leukopenia (<3500 white blood cells/mL) for primary transplant recipients (blue) and retransplant recipients (green). Tx, Transplantation; ReTx, retransplantation. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2011 141, 822-827DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.11.027) Copyright © 2011 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions