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We learn from the passage that, to start with, cardiac transplantation ----.
Cardiac transplantation, once considered an
experimental procedure, has emerged as the therapy
of choice for many appropriately selected patients
with life-threatening irremediable heart disease.
Congestive heart failure (CHF), the primary indication
for cardiac transplantation, is the most commonly
reported reason for hospital admission. A knowledge
of cardiac transplantation medicine is therefore
important for all physicians, as transplantation should
be considered a therapeutic option for many of these
patients. In the past, post-cardiac transplant care was
largely performed by specialized transplant
physicians, primarily cardiologists and cardiovascular
surgeons. As survival after cardiac transplantation
has improved markedly over the last decade, the
population of patients who are long-term survivors
after heart transplantation has grown. Primary care
physicians, as well as cardiologists not based at
cardiac transplant centres, often assist in the care of
these patients, most often in consultation with cardiac
transplant physicians. In addition, a physician may be
called on to assist in the management and evaluation
of a potential cardiac donor.