1. Graphical presentation of the causes of death in the first 30 days of all patients having had either a heart, heart-lung, or lung transplant who were in the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) registry from the period from January 1992 to June The graph serves to illustrate the high proportion of deaths from technical problems, infection, and rejection across all types of transplant patients.*Infection relates to non–cytomegalovirus-mediated disease; †cardiac, allograft vasculopathy; ‡multi-system organ failure. Developed using data taken from the ISHLT registry. (Reproduced with permission from Hertz MI, Mohacsi PJ, Taylor DO, et al:The registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Introduction to the Twentieth Annual Reports—2003.J Heart Lung Transplant 22:610, 2003.)
Source: Chapter 90. The Transplant Patient, Principles of Critical Care, 3e
Citation: Hall JB, Schmidt GA, Wood LH. Principles of Critical Care, 3e; 2005 Available at: Accessed: November 15, 2017
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