Abstract
Advanced heart failure is an entity where irreversible structural heart disease is associated with persistent, refractory symptoms and quantitative decrease in cardiopulmonary capacity. Despite advanced and comprehensive medical therapy, patients are at high risk of death due to cardiogenic shock or cardiac arrest. Heart transplantation was developed as a surgical intervention to replace the failing recipient heart with a healthy heart from a recently deceased donor. In this article, we discuss the current state of cardiac transplantation, more than 5 decades after the first human cardiac transplantation was performed. Apart from an historical overview of the development of surgical techniques, we focus on appropriate patient selection, pretransplant evaluation, and recognition and treatment of post-transplant complications.
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