Standards & Guidelines
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ISHLT Working Formulation of a Standardized Nomenclature for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy—20101 July 2010
This document represents a working formulation for an international nomenclature of cardiac allograft vasculopathy, similar to the development of the system for adjudication of cardiac allograft rejection by histology.
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ACCF/AHA/ACP/HFSA/ISHLT 2010 Clinical Competence Statement on Management of Patients With Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac TransplantA Report of the ACCF/AHA/ACP Task Force on Clinical Competence and Training1 July 2010
This statement on clinical competence for management of patients with advanced HF and cardiac transplantation aims to delineate the knowledge base and skills necessary for expertise in the care and management of patients.
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2009 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension27 August 2009
The Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension (PH) are intended to provide the medical community with updated theoretical and practical information on the management of patients with PH.
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Generic Drug Immunosuppression in Thoracic TransplantationAn ISHLT Educational Advisory4 June 2009
The purpose of this educational advisory from 2009 was to provide an international perspective on regulatory and clinical concerns with generic immunosuppression medications in thoracic transplantation.
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ISHLT Advisory Statement on the Implications of Pandemic Influenza for Thoracic Organ Transplantation15 May 2009
This advisory statement regarding the implications the swine influenza A (H1N1) on transplantation has been produced by the ISHLT to complement existing official guidance from national and international public health agencies
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Revision of the 1996 Working Formulation for the Standardization of Nomenclature in the Diagnosis of Lung Rejection1 December 2007
This multi-disciplinary review of the biopsy grading system was undertaken to update the 1996 document, address inconsistencies of use, and consider the current knowledge of antibody-mediated rejection in the lung.
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ISHLT Guidelines for the Care of Cardiac Transplant Candidates—20061 September 2006
In April 2005, after recognizing that current guidelines on the care of cardiac transplant patients were insufficient, ISHLT set out to develop a comprehensive set of guidelines for the pre-transplant management of cardiac transplant candidates.
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International Guidelines for the Selection of Lung Transplant Candidates: 2006 UpdateA Consensus Report From the Pulmonary Scientific Council of ISHLT1 July 2006
The aim of this report is to assist physicians throughout the world in referring potential candidates for lung transplantation.
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Present Status of Research on Psychosocial Outcomes in Cardiothoracic Transplantation— Review and Recommendations for the FieldReport of the Psychosocial Outcomes Workgroup of the Nursing and Social Sciences Council of the ISHLT1 June 2006
This document summarizes existing work on psychosocial outcomes, delineates areas requiring attention, offers recommendations for steps to advance the field, and provides an impetus for the conduct of clinical trials of interventions to improve outcomes.
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Revision of the 1990 Working Formulation for the Standardization of Nomenclature in the Diagnosis of Heart Rejection1 November 2005
This article summarizes the revised consensus classification for cardiac allograft rejection.
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Report of the ISHLT Working Group on Primary Lung Graft Dysfunction1 October 2005
The purpose of this group was to review the available literature to provide a state-of-the-art, comprehensive series of documents to serve as a resource for clinicians and researchers.
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Scientific Registry of ISHLT: Introduction to the 2005 Annual Reports1 August 2005
The Registry remains the world’s most comprehensive record of heart and lung transplant activity, practices and outcomes. This document presents the 2005 annual reports of the Scientific Registry of ISHLT (the Registry)
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ISHLT Practice Guidelines for Management of Heart Failure in Children1 December 2004
There is a much more literature addressing HF in adults than in children. Given the significant differences between these adult and pediatric patients, this document summarizes the literature and synthesizes management guidelines for children with HF.
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A Review of Lung Transplant Donor Acceptability CriteriaA Consensus Report from the Pulmonary Council of ISHLT1 November 2003
The purpose of this report is to identify the evidence, or lack thereof, supporting the current recommendations for donor lung acceptability.
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Destination Mechanical Circulatory Support: Proposal for Clinical Standards1 April 2003
This editorial proposes ISHLT develop clinical standards for destination mechanical circulatory support, including minimum requirements for MCSD centers and the identification of centers to perform destination MCSD implantation.
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Maximizing Use of Organs Recovered from the Cadaver Donor: Cardiac Recommendations1 November 2002
This report provides recommendations to improve the evaluation and successful utilization of potential cardiac donors.
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Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome 2001: An Update of the Diagnostic Criteria1 March 2002
This document incorporates the results from research into the BOS criteria, and includes considerations in pediatric patients; risk factors; pathology of BO; surrogate markers: confounding factors in diagnosis; and assessment of response to treatment.
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ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult: Executive SummaryA report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines1 February 2002
This document on the evaluation and management of heart failure was also developed by ACC and AHA to reassess and update the content of their original guidelines, published in 1995.
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The Present Status of Xenotransplantation and its Potential Role in the Treatment of End-Stage Cardiac and Pulmonary DiseasesReport of the Xenotransplantation Advisory Committee of the ISHLT1 December 2000
This document presents a number of conclusions from the ISHLT Xenotransplantation Advisory Committee on the current status of xenotransplantation with regard to thoracic organs, and provides recommendations relating to eventual clinical trials.
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ISHLT/ATS/ASTP/ERS International Guidelines for the Selection of Lung Transplant Candidates14 October 1998
These international guideines describe general health guidelines and disease specific exercise or lung function criteria that can be used to identify candidates for lung transplantation.
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