Guidelines

GUIDELINES
As part of our mission, ISHLT engages in the regular development of guidelines regarding end-stage heart disease, end-stage lung disease, heart transplantation, and lung transplantation.  A complete list of the guidelines and recommendations ISHLT has either published, co-authored, and/or endorsed is listed below, organized by date of publication.  Free access to the full text of most of the below documents is available by clicking on the titles.

PDF - ISHLT Guide to Guidelines Development  This is the document which all ISHLT-developed standards and guidelines are required to follow.
2010

 The ISHLT Guidelines For The Care Of Heart Transplant Recipients
 PDF - Press Release
 JHLT Online Article - Executive Summary
 PDF - Task Force 1 - Peri-Operative Care Of The Heart Transplant Recipient
 PDF - Task Force 2: Immunosuppression And Rejection
 PDF - Task Force 3:  Long-Term Care Of Heart Transplant Recipients

 JACC Online Article - ACCF / AHA / ACP / HFSA / ISHLT 2010 Clinical Competence Statement on Management of Patients With Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant

 ISHLT working formulation of a standardized nomenclature for cardiac allograft vasculopathy
 JHLT Online Article
 PDF - Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Grading Report Form

 PDF - ISHLT Conflict Of Interest Final Policy
2009

  PDF - Generic Drug Immunosuppression in Thoracic Transplantation: An ISHLT Educational Advisory

 ESC/ERS Webpage - 2009 ESC / ERS Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension
2006

 ISHLT Guidelines for the Care of Cardiac Transplant Candidates—2006
• JHLT Online Article - Rationale and Process
• JHLT Online Article - Listing Criteria for Heart Transplantation
• JHLT Online Article - Optimal Pharmacologic and Non-pharmacologic Management of Cardiac Transplant Candidates:
   Approaches to Be Considered Prior to Transplant Evaluation
• JHLT Online Article - Heart Rhythm Considerations in Heart Transplant Candidates and Considerations for Ventricular Assist Devices

 JHLT Online Article - International Guidelines for the Selection of Lung Transplant Candidates: 2006 Update—A Consensus Report from the ISHLT Pulmonary Scientific Council

 JHLT Online Article - Report of the Psychosocial Outcomes Workgroup of the Nursing and Social Sciences Council of the ISHLT: Present Status of Research on Psychosocial Outcomes in Cardiothoracic Transplantation: Review and Recommendations for the Field
2005

 JHLT Online Article - Revision of the 1990 Working Formulation for the Standardization of Nomenclature in the Diagnosis of Heart Rejection

 Report of the ISHLT Working Group on Primary Lung Graft Dysfunction
• JHLT Online Article - Part I: Introduction and Methods
• JHLT Online Article - Part II: Definition. A Consensus Statement of the ISHLT
• JHLT Online Article - Part III: Donor Related Risk Factors and Markers
• JHLT Online Article - Part IV: Recipient-Related Risk Factors and Markers
• JHLT Online Article - Part V: Predictors and Outcomes
• JHLT Online Article - Part VI: Treatment

 JHLT Online Article - Scientific Registry of the ISHLT: Introduction to the 2005 Annual Reports
2004

 JHLT Online Article - ISHLT: Practice Guidelines for Management of Heart Failure in Children
2003

 JHLT Online Article - A Review of Lung Transplant Donor Acceptability Criteria

 JHLT Online Article - Destination Mechanical Circulatory Support: Proposal for Clinical Standards
2002

 JHLT Online Article - Maximizing Use of Organs Recovered from the Cadaver Donor: Cardiac Recommendations

 JHLT Online Article - Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome 2001: an Update of the Diagnostic Criteria

 ACC/AHA Webpage - ACC / AHA Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult: Executive Summary A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Revise the 1995 Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Heart Failure)
2000

 PDF - Report of the Xenotransplantation Advisory Committee of the ISHLT: the Present Status of Xenotransplantation and its Potential Role in the Treatment of End-Stage Cardiac and Pulmonary Diseases
1998

 ATS Webpage - International Guidelines for the Selection of Lung Transplant Candidates (Joint statement of the American Society for Transplant Physicians, the American Thoracic Society, the European Respiratory Society, and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.)


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