Publications by authors named "P E Oyer"
Article Synopsis
- Heart transplantation has been the best way to treat people with severe heart problems since 1968, and Stanford University has been doing it for over 50 years.
- A total of 2,671 patients were treated at Stanford, with more patients in more recent years living longer after their transplants, despite them being older and having more health issues.
- The study shows that even with these challenges, survival rates after heart transplants have improved, and more research is needed to understand why outcomes are getting better.
The Stanford classification of aortic dissection was described in 1970. The classification proposed that type A aortic dissection should be surgically repaired immediately, whereas type B aortic dissection can be treated medically. Since then, diagnostic tools and management of acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) have undergone substantial evolution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOutcomes after heart retransplantation: A 50-year single-center experience.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
February 2022
Objectives: To evaluate outcomes after heart retransplantation.
Methods: From January 6, 1968, to June 2019, 123 patients (112 adult and 11 pediatric patients) underwent heart retransplantation, and 2092 received primary transplantation at our institution. Propensity-score matching was used to account for baseline differences between the retransplantation and the primary transplantation-only groups.
Operative technique and pitfalls in donor heart procurement.
Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann
January 2017
We describe a simple and reproducible donor heart procurement technique in sequential steps. A detailed understanding of procurement and organ preservation techniques should be an essential part of a heart transplant training program.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Allosensitization has been shown to negatively affect post-heart transplant (HTx) survival even with a negative crossmatch. Whether allosensitization related to mechanical circulatory support (MCS) is associated with worse post-HTx survival remains controversial.
Methods: Adult HTx recipients listed in the United Network for Organ Sharing database (July 2006-December 2012) were identified.