Heart transplantation in the early phase of the COVID‐19 pandemic: A single‐center case series
| Autor: | Abbas Ardehali, Daniel Cruz, S. Fraschilla, Jeffrey J. Hsu, Bernard M. Kubak, M. Kamath, Joanna Schaenman, Margrit Carlson, D. Vucicevic, Pryce Gaynor, Ashley Fan, Reza Ardehali, Mario C. Deng, Emily Stimpson, Farah Al-Saffar, A. Baas, Ali Nsair |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) medicine.medical_treatment Population coronavirus 030230 surgery Brief Communication heart transplantation Single Center Perioperative Care SARS‐CoV‐2 03 medical and health sciences COVID-19 Testing Postoperative Complications 0302 clinical medicine COVID‐19 Pandemic medicine Humans Intensive care medicine education Pandemics Aged Heart Failure Heart transplantation Infection Control Transplantation education.field_of_study Surge Capacity business.industry pandemic COVID-19 Middle Aged Los Angeles Treatment Outcome Infectious disease (medical specialty) Female 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Transplantation |
| ISSN: | 1399-0012 0902-0063 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ctr.14042 |
| Popis: | The infectious disease Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. The impact of COVID‐19 on solid organ transplantations, including heart transplantation, is currently unclear. Many transplant programs have been forced to swiftly re‐evaluate and adapt their practices, leading to a marked decrease in transplants performed. This trend has been due to various factors, including increased donor COVID‐19 screening scrutiny and recipient waiting list management in anticipation of COVID‐19 critical care surge capacity planning. In the face of these unknown variables, determining when and how to proceed with transplantation in our population of patients with end‐stage cardiomyopathies is challenging. Here, we describe our center’s experience with orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) in one of the country’s pandemic epicenters, where we performed eight OHTs in the first two months after community spread began in late February 2020. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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