Cardiac Transplantation and Survival

In summary, cardiac transplantation in 2008 is a successful therapy for the management of severe heart failure, but the reason for success lies principally in the individual patients who must take care of their own hearts, and the extremely high level of competence of the transplant physicians who understand the nuances and the complexities of the management of the heart transplant patients.2 Efforts should be made to identify conditions and factors that are associated with and may be causative of long term survival. For more details about the current status of cardiac transplantation, I refer the reader to an excellent, state-ofthe-art paper by Hunt and Haddad.3. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.