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[Functioning of the transplanted heart].

U C Czubek·W Piwowarska
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There are significant differences between functioning of transplanted and healthy hearts. Assessment of such a heart and therapeutic possibilities in heart recipients require understanding of these differences. Vegetative denervation of heart increases its sensitivity to the circulation humoral substances, especially catecholamines. In the early postoperative period, filling pressures of the right and left ventricle are elevated. An increase in pulmonary resistance accompany noted pulmonary hypertension, leading subsequently to the right ventricular failure and mitral valve insufficiency. Normalization of these disorders begins in the majority of cases about 4 months following heart transplantation. A type of immunosuppression has an important effect on circulatory hemodynamics. A systemic blood hypertension is a frequent complication of immunosuppression with cyclosporine A in heart recipients. Heart contraction frequency is usually higher in heart recipients than that in control group, and its resting mean value is 90 beats per minute. Moreover, a mild circadian changes in this frequency by about 20% is noted in heart recipients. Cardiac arrhythmias following heart transplantation are associated with the degree of denervated heart transplant to arrhythmia is rather improbable. Cardiac drugs acting with mediation of vegetation system have no effect on the transplanted heart. Heart transplant is fully capable to maintain proper body functioning.

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Arrhythmias, CardiacCircadian RhythmElectrocardiographyHeartHeart TransplantationHemodynamicsHumansHypertensionMyocardial ContractionEnglish AbstractJournal ArticleReview

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U C Czubek, W Piwowarska. [Functioning of the transplanted heart].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7659617/

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