Heart Transplantation has now become the Standard of Care in the Treatment for end-stage Heart failure. The Therapy and Protocols Involved in Heart Transplantation have gone through Various Stages of Refinement over the Last 40 years. The First Heart Transplantation in India was actually done in KEM hospital in 1968.
( 2 cases, Dr PK Sen ) but there were no long-term survivors. Heart Transplantation was not performed in a regular fashion Internationally, Until the New Class of Immunosuppressive drugs like Cyclosporine were Introduced in the 1980’s and put to Clinical use with Long Term followup data in Major centres like Stanford University USA, Cleveland Clinic, USA and Harefield Hospital UK ( Ref 1 ) Thereafter Heart and Lung Transplantation Got a Huge Boost by the Formation of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the USA in 1984. This was the First Organized non-profit,…
