| Contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Cardiomyopathies | |
| The Spectrum of Cardiomyopathies | p. 3 |
| Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Chronic Cardiac Failure | p. 29 |
| Strategies for Therapy of Early and Advanced Heart Failure | p. 37 |
| Vasodilator Therapy for Heart Failure | p. 47 |
| Management of Asymptomatic Ventricular Arrhythmias in Patients with Heart Failure | p. 59 |
| Cardiac Augmentation Devices | |
| Application of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump for Circulatory Support | p. 73 |
| Ventricular Assist Devices for Left and Right Heart Support: Clinical and Experimental Considerations | p. 83 |
| Biomechanical Cardiac Assist | p. 107 |
| Mechanical Aspects of the Total Artificial Heart | p. 117 |
| The Artificial Heart | p. 125 |
| Cardiac Transplantation | |
| Historical Perspective of Cardiac Transplantation | p. 135 |
| Organization of a Cardiac Transplant Center | p. 141 |
| Medical Evaluation before Cardiac Transplantation | p. 145 |
| Psychiatric Aspects of Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation | p. 161 |
| Donor Procurement and Management | p. 173 |
| Anesthesia for Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation | p. 185 |
| Techniques of Cardiac Transplantation | p. 197 |
| Immediate Postoperative Care of the Cardiac Transplant Patient | p. 221 |
| Infant Heart Transplantation | p. 227 |
| Cardiac Transplantation: Complications and Management | p. 233 |
| Transplantation Immunobiology | p. 241 |
| Immunosuppressive Therapy | p. 247 |
| Dermatologic Manifestations of Immunosuppression in Transplant Recipients | p. 253 |
| Neurologic Complications following Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation | p. 265 |
| Patient Education and Nursing Care of Cardiac Transplant Patients | p. 273 |
| Noninvasive Detection of Acute Cardiac Allograft Rejection | p. 293 |
| Radionuclide Imaging Procedures in the Evaluation of Heart Transplant Recipients | p. 305 |
| Endomyocardial Biopsy | p. 327 |
| Histologic Evaluation of Endomyocardial and Lung Biopsies in Heart and Heart-Lung Transplant Recipients | p. 335 |
| Exercise Rehabilitation after Heart Transplantation | p. 359 |
| Outpatient Management of Cardiac Transplant Recipients | p. 369 |
| Heart-Lung Transplantation | |
| Pathology of Pulmonary Hypertension | p. 377 |
| Evaluation and Management of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension prior to Heart-Lung and Lung Transplantation | p. 403 |
| Heart-Lung Transplantation | p. 415 |
| Isolated Lung Transplantation | p. 429 |
| Lung Transplantation: Critical Problems and Follow-up | p. 441 |
| Psychosocial Evaluation of Children after Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation | p. 447 |
| Physiologic Aspects of the Transplanted Human Lung | p. 461 |
| Ethical Issues in Cardiopulmonary Transplantation | p. 471 |
| Results of Intrathoracic Transplantation from the International Society for Heart Transplantation Registry | p. 483 |
| Epilogue: Quality and Lifestyles of the Heart Transplant Recipients | p. 491 |
| Index | p. 497 |
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