Abstract:Combined heart-kidney transplantation (HKT) is a growing therapeutic strategy in patients with advanced heart failure (HF) and concomitant chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although patients with advanced HF and need for chronic haemodialysis have a clear indication for combined HKT, challenges to current practice lie in identifying those patients with severely depressed kidney function, which will not recover kidney function after restoration of appropriate haemodynamic conditions following heart transplantation … Show more
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