Abstract:Today, heart transplantation is a gold standard treatment of the terminal chronic heart failure. Despite the constant improvement of the technique of this operation and the emergence of new protocols of immunosuppressive therapy, one of the main problems in the development of heart transplantation in Ukraine is a limited donor pool. The article presents a clinical case of successful orthotopic heart transplantation, followed by mitral valve repair in the early postoperative period. Our experience shows that mi… Show more
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