Surgery-related complications in cardiac transplantation patients


Sezgin A., Akay T. H., Ozcobanoglu S., Guetekin B., SADE E., Akpek E., ...More

TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS, vol.40, no.1, pp.255-258, 2008 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

Abstract

Objective. The surgical techniques was first described by Lower and Shumway for cardiac transplantation have not changed for many years; they are still being commonly used worldwide despite recently presented alternatives. We sought to evaluate the surgical complications among our cardiac transplantation patients in whom we performed the standard technique.