Cardiac transplantation in Hawaii.
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1994-03
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53
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3
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Clinical cardiac transplantation was successfully introduced 26 years ago, and from an initial experimental status, it has moved forward to become an accepted and well-established treatment modality for end-stage cardiac disease. The first cardiac transplant operation in Hawaii was performed in March 1987; the patient lived for 1 year. A total of 20 heart transplant operations have been performed in 19 patients at St. Francis Medical Center in Honolulu. There has been only one hospital death, and our current one-year survival is 77%, which is similar to national statistics. Our longest survivor is now more than 6 years following transplantation. The incidence of rejection episodes and infectious complications is comparable to other studies.
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