Standards & Guidelines
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ISHLT Practice Guidelines for Management of Heart Failure in Children1 December 2004
There is a much more literature addressing HF in adults than in children. Given the significant differences between these adult and pediatric patients, this document summarizes the literature and synthesizes management guidelines for children with HF.
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A Review of Lung Transplant Donor Acceptability CriteriaA Consensus Report from the Pulmonary Council of ISHLT1 November 2003
The purpose of this report is to identify the evidence, or lack thereof, supporting the current recommendations for donor lung acceptability.
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Destination Mechanical Circulatory Support: Proposal for Clinical Standards1 April 2003
This editorial proposes ISHLT develop clinical standards for destination mechanical circulatory support, including minimum requirements for MCSD centers and the identification of centers to perform destination MCSD implantation.
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Maximizing Use of Organs Recovered from the Cadaver Donor: Cardiac Recommendations1 November 2002
This report provides recommendations to improve the evaluation and successful utilization of potential cardiac donors.
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Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome 2001: An Update of the Diagnostic Criteria1 March 2002
This document incorporates the results from research into the BOS criteria, and includes considerations in pediatric patients; risk factors; pathology of BO; surrogate markers: confounding factors in diagnosis; and assessment of response to treatment.
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ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult: Executive SummaryA report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines1 February 2002
This document on the evaluation and management of heart failure was also developed by ACC and AHA to reassess and update the content of their original guidelines, published in 1995.
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The Present Status of Xenotransplantation and its Potential Role in the Treatment of End-Stage Cardiac and Pulmonary DiseasesReport of the Xenotransplantation Advisory Committee of the ISHLT1 December 2000
This document presents a number of conclusions from the ISHLT Xenotransplantation Advisory Committee on the current status of xenotransplantation with regard to thoracic organs, and provides recommendations relating to eventual clinical trials.
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ISHLT/ATS/ASTP/ERS International Guidelines for the Selection of Lung Transplant Candidates14 October 1998
These international guideines describe general health guidelines and disease specific exercise or lung function criteria that can be used to identify candidates for lung transplantation.