{"title":"Cardiac transplantation: 1. From CHF to surgery.","authors":"D G Renlund","doi":"10.1080/21548331.1994.11443109","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients are often referred for transplantation prematurely, without a thorough workup or a trial of optimal medical therapy. The cause of heart failure symptoms may be as easy to correct as excessive salt or water intake. Moreover, careful drug manipulation can defer transplantation for up to 10 years in some cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":77164,"journal":{"name":"Hospital practice (Office ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21548331.1994.11443109","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hospital practice (Office ed.)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1994.11443109","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Patients are often referred for transplantation prematurely, without a thorough workup or a trial of optimal medical therapy. The cause of heart failure symptoms may be as easy to correct as excessive salt or water intake. Moreover, careful drug manipulation can defer transplantation for up to 10 years in some cases.