The field of heart transplantation has seen significant progress in the past 40 years.
However, the breakthroughs in long-term outcome have seen stagnation in the past decade.
Through advances in genomics and transcriptomics, there is hope that an era of
personalized transplant therapy lies in the future. To see where heart transplantation truly fits
into the long term, searching for and understanding the alternative approaches for heart
failure therapy is both important and inevitable. The application of mechanical circulatory …