Standards & Guidelines
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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.