[Heart transplantation in amyloidosis. Clinical and imaging manifestations].

Objective: To describe the clinical and imaging characteristics of heart transplantation patients due to amyloidosis in a community institution.

Method: Descriptive case series of consecutive heart transplantation patients with amyloidosis in a medical center. All patients with diagnosis of amyloidosis with cardiac compromise receiving heart transplantation, performed in the period November 2008 to February 2021, were included in the analysis.

Acute Kidney Injury After Heart Transplant: The Importance of Pulmonary Hypertension.

Objective: To determine whether relative pulmonary hypertension (PH), defined as the ratio of mean arterial pressure to mean pulmonary artery pressure, is associated with severe acute kidney injury (AKI) after heart transplant (HT).

Design: An institutional review board-approved retrospective observational study.

Setting: Tertiary care university hospital.

Heart Transplantation in Patients >60 Years: Importance of Relative Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Failure on Midterm Survival.

Objectives: To determine the impact of recipient age and perioperative risk factors on midterm survival after orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT). The authors hypothesized that perioperative variables are more important as predictors of mortality than is a recipient's age.

Design: Retrospective study.

Anesthetic and Perioperative Considerations for Combined Heart-Kidney Transplantation.

Objective: To describe detailed perioperative features of combined heart and kidney transplant (HKT).

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Tertiary care university hospital.

Old Solutions for New Troubles in Complications after Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair.

 The authors present two cases with type B aortic dissection initially treated by endovascular stent graft who developed aortic complications posttreatment and required surgical treatment.  A 50-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man underwent endovascular treatment for thoracic aortic aneurysm associated with type B dissection and -both of them evolved with endoleak type 1. The first case was related to aortobronchial fistula, and the second one was associated with ascending aortic aneurysm.

Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio as predictors of survival after heart transplantation.

Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) predict outcome in heart failure (HF) patients undergoing heart transplantation (HTX).

Methods And Results: Data from 111 HF patients undergoing HTX 2010-2015 were retrospectively reviewed. NLR and PLR were calculated before HTX, immediately after HTX, and at 6 and 24 hours.

Single Stage Aortic Arch Replacement without Circulatory Arrest.

A 78-year-old man with a Kommerell diverticulum and aberrant right subclavian artery was admitted for thoracic pain and severe malnutrition due to esophageal compression. We performed an atypical surgical procedure including extra-anatomical debranching and direct aortic repair, trying to avoid deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and shorten the cardiopulmonary bypass time.

[Plasmatic pattern and clinical outcomes of lactic acid in heart transplantation].

Introduction: It is not well established the prognostic value of elevated lactic acid after heart transplantation.

Objective: To evaluate the plasmatic pattern and the prognostic value of elevated lactate after heart transplantation.

Methods: One-hundred and twenty seven patients were included between 2011 and 2014, 71 comprising the transplantation group and 56 the control group, represented by on pump coronary artery by-pass surgery patients.