ISHLT issues updated candidacy criteria for heart transplantation

(Elsevier Health Sciences) To determine patient eligibility for heart transplant, the International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation maintains a list of criteria, first issued in 2006, that acts as a guideline for physicians. A major 10-year update has now been issued and published in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, which is freely available at .jhltonline.org.