Heart failure & cardiomyopathiesGuideline or statement

Dual-Organ Transplantation: Indications, Evaluation, and Outcomes for Heart-Kidney and Heart-Liver Transplantation: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

CirculationPublished

  • Scientific statement

Recommendations

As issued by the authors

  1. Describes the impact of pretransplantation renal and hepatic dysfunction on posttransplantation outcomes

  2. Discusses the assessment of pretransplantation renal and hepatic dysfunction

  3. Provides an approach to patient selection for simultaneous heart-kidney and heart-liver transplantation and posttransplantation management

  4. Explores the ethics of multiorgan transplantation

Original publication

Dual-Organ Transplantation: Indications, Evaluation, and Outcomes for Heart-Kidney and Heart-Liver Transplantation: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. Published 13 July 2023. doi:10.1161/cir.0000000000001155

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