3. Questions
Should we consider for Transplant ?
2) 65 yr female with controlled diabetes and
HTN, serum creatinine 1.4.
4. Questions
Should we consider for Transplant ?
3) 40 yr female, post op stage 2 Ca breast,
operated 8 yrs back, got adjuvant CT for 2
yrs. Developed CM.
5. Questions
Should we consider for Transplant ?
4) 25 yr male patient of 60 kg weight, donor 18
yr female with 35 kg weight.
6. Questions contd..
Can transplant be done in ABO incompatible
patients
What is VO2 max and role in patient selection
7. History
1905
• Carrel and Guthrie experiment
• HT into neck of animals
1946
• Vladimir Demikhov experiment
• Both OT and HT into thorax of dogs
1964
• James D Hardy
• First animal to human heart transplant
8. 1967
• Christiaan Neethling Barnard
• First human to human heart transplant
• 3/12/67
1967
• Adrian Kantrowitz
• First pediatric heart tranplant
• 6/12/67
1968
• Norman Shumway
• First human to human heart transplant in US
• 6/1/68
12. 1967
• Christiaan Neethling Barnard
• First human to human heart transplant
• 3/12/67
1967
• Adrian Kantrowitz
• First pediatric heart tranplant
• 6/12/67
1968
• Norman Shumway
• First human to human heart transplant in US
• 6/1/68
16. AIIMS Delhi
• 3 August 1994
• First successful
heart tranplant in
INDIA
• Devi Ram
• Lived for 14 yrs
Prof Panangipalli Venugopal
17. Adult and Pediatric Heart Transplants
Number of Transplants by Year and Location
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
5000
Numberoftransplants
Other
Europe
North America
NOTE: This figure includes only the heart transplants
that are reported to the ISHLT Transplant Registry. As
such, the presented data may not mirror the changes in
the number of heart transplants performed worldwide.
JHLT. 2014 Oct; 33(10): 996-1008
2015
JHLT. 2015 Oct; 34(10): 1244-1254
18. INDIA and heart failure load
India – 19 millions heart failure patients
1.5 million added every yr
Mortality of 30-40% per yr
19. NUMBER OF
TRANSPLANTATIONS
IN USA: 2,200 Heart Transplantation are being
done per year.
IN INDIA: Around 150 HEART
TRANSPLANTATIONS SINCE 1994
21. Indications
1) Cardiogenic shock or low cardiac output state
requiring mechanical assistance (IABP, VAD,
TAH) with reversible organ-system damage.
2) Heart failure (refractory low cardiac output
state) requiring continuous inotropic support.
3) NYHA classes III-IV ((VO2 < 14 mL · kg−1 ·
min−1) despite optimal medical therapy and
poor 12-month prognosis
22. 4) Severe hypertrophic or restrictive
cardiomyopathy, NYHA class IV symptoms
5) Refractory angina pectoris despite optimal
medical therapy not amenable to coronary
revascularization.
6) Recurrent life-threatening ventricular
arrhythmia refractory to medical treatment or
insertion of ICD
7) Cardiac tumors, unresectable with low
probability ofmetastasis
23. VO 2
Peak exercise
oxygen consumption
Risk stratification of
heart failure patients
1. Less than 14
ml/kg/min have high
mortality risk, will
benefit from HT
2. More than 14
ml/kg/min – low risk
24.
25. Heart Failure Survival Score
(HFSS)
1. Presence or absence of CAD
2. Resting heart rate
3. Left ventricular ejection fraction
4. Mean arterial blood pressure
5. Presence or absence of an intraventricular
conduction delay on ECG
6. Serum sodium
7. Peak Vo2
26. HFSS score
HFSS categories Score 1 Yr survival
Low risk More than 8 88 %
Medium risk 7.2- 8 60 %
High risk Less than 7.2 35%
27.
28. ETIOLOGY OF END STAGE
HEART DISEASE.
DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY. 45%
ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY 45%
VALVULAR (WILL BE PROBABLY HIGHER IN
INDIA) 3%
ADULT (CONGENITAL) 2%
REDO TRANSPLANTATION 2%
30. Recipient selection
Goal :
Identify candidates who have a poor
prognosis yet lack other comorbidities that
significantly increase perioperative mortality or
limit patient survival post transplantation
32. Pulmonary vascular resistance
Normal : ≤1.5 Wood units[120 dynessec/cm5]
High : > 6 Wood units (320 to 480
dynessec/cm5]
Immediate post op : Right HF
Neuro – hormonal vasoconstriction and not
structural changes.
33. Reversibility of PVR
SNP, dobutamine, milrinone, PG E1,
prostacyclin and inhaled NO
Implantation of left ventricular assist device
35. 26 Heart transplants
Fixed Pulmonary hypertension : 5.1+/- 2.8 WU
Perioperative mortality 5 %
Mid term follow up : 85 % survival at 3 yrs
Comparable to transplants without pulmonary
hypertension
36. Heart transplant receipents were screened with
right heart cath
PVR Mortality at 3mths
More than 2.5 17.9 %
Less than 2.5 6.9 %
37. Infection
Heart transplant is absolutely contraindicated
in presence of active infection (pneumonia,
septicemia)
Post LVAD (BTT) driveline infection and
mediastinits : not contraindication
38. 149 patients undergone LVAD for BTT
110 successfully tranplanted
7 had signs of drive line infection or
mediastinitis
Survival between 7 and 103 was similar at end
of 1 yr ( 85.7% v/s 82.5%)
40. HT with Chronic viral infection ?
Prevalence of hepatitis B and hepatitis C
infection in chronic HF pts is over 10%
Emergence of new antiviral therapies
Hepatitis B or C infection is not an absolute
contraindication
No clear recommendations
Practices of individual centers differ
41.
42. HIV infection and tranplant
HIV infection is widely considered a
contraindication for cardiac transplantation
Newer anti-retroviral drugs : 10-year survival
after seroconversion exceeds 90%
Prospective series of liver or kidney transplant
recipients with stable HIV disease : graft
survival was similar to general population
43. Retrospective observation
Among 1679 pts – 6 patients were HIV + (4
diagnosed before and 2 serocoverted later)
At follow up of 57 +/- 78.9 mths : survival
similar to other pts
Concomitant ART : dose of calcineurin
inhibition reduced and carefully monitored
46. Donor selection
Donor : unresponsive, no reflexes, without
breathing movement and 2 flat ecg 24 hrs
apart
Investigation
ECG
ECHO
Angiography ( > 45 yrs / smoking)
47. Exclusion
Prolonged history of hypotension/cardiac
arrest
Global or regional wall motion defect
Severe valvular heart disease
Evidence of sepsis
HIV/HCV/ HBV infection
Active malignancy
Size mismatch
48. Size mismatch
Weight : Generally accepted matching criteria
Discrepancy of > 20 % : considered significant
Consider
Recipient have dilated heart so accommodate
slightly larger heart
Risk of RV dysfunction high if smaller heart used
in case of borderline PVR
51. ABO compatibility
Essential criteria
Like blood transfusion
O –ve universal donor
AB +ve universal recipient
Incompatible transplant – Hyperacute rejection
(platelet deposition, granulocyte activation and
thrombosis)
52. Exceptions to ABO compatibilty
1. Blood gp A
A 1 – hyperacute rejection
A 2 – less prone for rejection
(antigens not displayed readily over surface)
Reports of successful skin and renal tranplants of A2
donor in B and O gp pts
2. Infants < 6 mths
Deficient B cell response, antibody production to Ag of
intestinal E coli delayed.
Paucity of neonatal donors
More than 80 ABO incompatible infant HT reported
53. 85 out of 502 (17%) were ABOi HT
ABO c ABO I
Ventilator
prolonged
36.5 % 49.4%
ECMO 13.4 % 23.5%
Survival at 12
mths
84% 82%
56. Contraindications of pediatric HT
Severe irr fixed elevation of PVR
Severe hypoplasia of central pulmonary
arteries
Severe irr disease of other organs
58. Potential advantages
Native heart support transient dysfunction of
donor heart
Management of elevated pulmonary vascular
resistance, supports native RV
Small donor heart for a larger recipient
Support of the native heart with development
of coronary vasculopathy, until
retransplantation can be done.
59. Current day indications
1. High PVR with no reactivity to pharmacologic
intervention
2. If donor heart is considerably smaller (>30 %)
60. Problems
Intraventricular thrombi (life long
anticoagulants)
Elevation of after-load due to dyssynchrony of
the implanted heart with the native heart
Progressive annular dilatation leading to aortic
insufficiency
Need for permanent pacemaker
Heart lung transplantation : other option
61. Performed 4 heterotopic HT for PVR bw 4.8 to
6.5 WU
One died immediatley, others had 2 1/2 yr, 6 yr
and 15 yr survival
Result : Inferior to orthotopic HT
62. Heart Lung Transplantation
First by Denton Cooley in Texas on 15 Sep
1969 (2 mth infant, survived 14 hrs)
Walton Lillehei performed second after 3 mths
in adult patient
63. Indications
1. Eisenmenger syndrome with uncorrected
intracardiac defect
2. Uncorrectable CHD with atresia or diffuse
severe hypoplasia of pul arteries
3. Severe heart failure with sec PAH
unresponsive to vasodilator therapy
64.
65. Xeno Tranplant
Animal heart to human
Famous Baby Fae experiment
American infant with HLHS
First Xenotransplant
Received Bsboon heart
Leonard L Bailey in 1984
Future : With better understanding of
immunology, may eventually be a reality.
normal serum creatinine range for men is 0.5-1.5 mg/dL. The normal range for women is 0.6-1.2 mg/dL.
normal serum creatinine range for men is 0.5-1.5 mg/dL. The normal range for women is 0.6-1.2 mg/dL.
normal serum creatinine range for men is 0.5-1.5 mg/dL. The normal range for women is 0.6-1.2 mg/dL.
normal serum creatinine range for men is 0.5-1.5 mg/dL. The normal range for women is 0.6-1.2 mg/dL.
Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov (Russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Де́михов; (Khutor Kulikovsky, July 18, 1916 – Moscow, November 22, 1998) was a Soviet scientist and organ transplant pioneer, who performed several transplantations in the 1930s and 1950s. Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first heart transplant operation from one person to another person in 1967, twice visited Demikhov's laboratory in 1960 and 1963, and considered Demikhov his teacher
James D. Hardy (May 14, 1918 – February 19, 2003) was an American surgeon, famous for the first human lung transplant and the first animal-to-human heart transplant.[heart of a chimpanzee, patient died after 90 min
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon in CAPETOWN. Barnard experimented for several years with animal heart transplants.[1] More than 50 dogs received transplanted hearts. operation lasted nine hours. The patient, Louis Washkansky, was a 54-year-old grocer, suffering from diabetes and incurable heart disease. The donor heart came from a young woman, Denise Darvall, who had been rendered brain damaged in an accident on 2 December 1967. Washkansky survived the operation and lived for 18 days. However, he succumbed to pneumonia. Barnard performed ten orthotopic transplants (1967–1973), Dirk van Zyl, who received a new heart in 1971, was the longest-lived recipient, surviving over 23 years.[6]
Adrian Kantrowitz (October 4, 1918 – November 14, 2008) was an Americancardiac surgeon Kantrowitz also invented the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), a left ventricular assist device (L-VAD), and an early version of the implantable pacemaker.[1 Within two years, more than 60 teams had replaced ailing hearts in some 150 patients patients vulnerable to deadly infections. Eighty percent of transplant recipients died within a year. Surgeons grew discouraged; by 1970, the number of transplants had plunged to 18
Shumway was the only American surgeon to continue performing the operation after others abandoned it after poor results. In particular he pioneered the use of cyclosporine, instead of traditional drugs, which made the operation safer.[4] He is widely regarded as the father of heart transplantation. From 1968 to 1980, nearly 200 heart transplants were performed at Stanford. About 65% of Shumway's patients survived at least one year, and half hung on for five.
Jean Borel's discovery of cyclosporine (calcineurin inhibitor), an immunosuppressant drug derived from soil fungus, in the mid 1970s. In 1982 trials results published demostrating benefits over steriods and azathioprine (antimetabolite agent). In 1994 a new drug, tacrolimus or FK-506, originally discovered in a fungus sample, was approved for immunosuppression in transplant patients.
From 1968 to 1980, nearly 200 heart transplants were performed at Stanford. About 65% of Shumway's patients survived at least one year, and half hung on for five. Inspired by Shumway's success and newer better immunosuppressive agents, the world's surgeons got back into heart transplants. There were 1,647 in 1988. By 2007, the number had jumped to 2,210 in US alone.
Due to unclear organ donation laws in INDIA, not much progress happened for many yrs
In May 1994, organ transplant bill was passed
MAJORITY us CENTRES PERFORM 10 TO 19 CASES per yr.
Due to this critical organ shortage, the
recipient selection process and donor allocation system have involved both clinical and ethical issues
IN general any pt class ¾ HF ref to max medical th, deblitating ischemia not amenable for inter or sx re vas, recu sym V ARR ref to medical / IVD or sx tx.
In general, the peak Vo (Vo max) provides an objective assessment of functional capacity in
patients with HF and is one of the best predictors of when to list an individual patient for cardiac transplantation
[8]. Peak exercise oxygen consumption is a factor that has been extremely helpful in
identifying lowrisk patients who can continue on medical therapy
The 2005 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association HF guidelines (with 2009 update)
include peak Vo criteria for cardiac transplantation
** Use of beta blockers has increased survival of heart failure patients, recent studies have shown that we can wait for transplant
Till 10-12 ml/kg/min of Vo2 and keep patients above that on medical follow up
Although peak Vo has often been the major parameter used to guide the selection of heart
transplant candidates, a single variable does not provide an optimal risk profile. As a result, several risk models
have been developed.
One model that has been validated prospectively is the HFSS Heart Failure Survival Score
Patients with an elevated PVR or a transpulmonary gradient
(mean pulmonary artery pressure minus mean pulmonary capillary wedge pressure) above 15 mmHg have an
increased risk of right ventricular failure in the immediate postoperative period
Fortunately, pulmonary hypertension in most patients with HF is due to neurohumoral
vasoconstriction, not structural changes in the pulmonary vasculature, such as calcification or intimal or medial hyperplasia
transpulmonary gradient (TPG), which is the difference between the mean pulmonary artery pressure and the mean pulmonary capillary pressure. patients with TPG greater than 15 mmHg had higher mortality rates than those with TPG from 10 to 15; the mortality was even lower when the gradient was less than 10 mmHg
J of american college of cardiology, 1993
Journal of Transplantation Volume 2013
emergence of new antiviral therapies has increased survival and quality of life of these pts
no clear recommendations as it has been difficult to show that survival after heart
transplantation is reduced in the presence of positive hepatitis B or C serology
Since the frequency of progressive liver disease appears to be more common with
hepatitis B than with hepatitis C, many transplant programs will accept candidates who are antiHCV
Antibody positive, but not those who are HBsAg positive
Small anatomical defect like PFO or vsd corrected
ABO as carbohydrate antigen present over sell surfaces all over body and individual who lack one or more antigens develop antibodies within 6 mths of life
young children who received an ABOi transplant had equivalent one-year survival and freedom from rejection compared with those who received an ABOc transplant
Adrain kantrowitz first did pediatric heart tranplant on 6/12/67 in Brooklyn 3 days after C barnard