Heart Transplants

Lungs' pressure needn't threaten heart transplant survival

Published in Drug Law Weekly, November 20th, 2007

Heart surgeons at Johns Hopkins say people who need heart transplants can largely avoid transplant failure due to elevated blood pressure in their lungs with the help of proper drug treatment.

Of the more than 2,000 heart transplants performed each year in the United States, up to 20 percent of the patients die or reject their organ within a year due to right heart failure brought on by pulmonary hypertension, infection or immune response.

In a study to be presented Nov. 6 at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla., the Hopkins team found that transplant recipients who needed and got commonly used...

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Source: Drug Law Weekly (2007-11-20)

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