Heart failure & cardiomyopathiesGuideline or statement

Update on heart transplantation: a consensus document

Eur J Heart FailPublished

  • Clinical consensus statement

Scope

As issued by the authors

Heart transplantation: patient selection, pre-transplant work-up, donor–recipient matching, bridging with temporary or durable mechanical circulatory support (MCS), increasing the donor pool, surgical techniques and complications, post-transplant and long-term management (rejection surveillance, personalised immunosuppression, comorbidities), rejection, early allograft failure, retransplantation, cardiac allograft vasculopathy, infections, malignancies, rehabilitation, psychosocial support and reproductive health

Original publication

Update on heart transplantation: a consensus document. Eur J Heart Fail. Published 5 May 2026. doi:10.1093/ejhf/xuag051

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