The Italian Heart Transplant Project is a national program coordinated by the Health Ministry and involves eight cardiac surgery centers, two coordination centers for organ procurement, and one national registry. An intercenter network for the solution of logistic problems regarding organ procurement and assignment has been built up. Preintervention and clinical follow-up data are recorded in each center and in a national registry by the implementation of a computerized data base. This is realized by employing low cost and diffuse software and hardware. The complex goal of common data collection and standardization is also being pursued for collateral areas such as cardiac pathology and immunologic surveillance. Data collection is useful for clinical monitoring and also for costs and/or requirements analysis.

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Tissue reaction to intracavitary electrodes: effect on duration and efficiency of unipolar pacing in patients with A-V block.

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Method for the estimate of total coronary flow by 99 Tc tagged albumin microspheres.

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Clinical Trials as Topic↗

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Reproducibility of the estimate of coronary perfusion changes. Possibility of evaluating coronary reserve capability during pacing induced tachycardia by 86 Rb precordial counting.

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Coronary Vessels↗

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[Use of a standard radioactive paste in the study of esophago-gastric kinesis (author's transl)].

The behaviour of esophago-gastric kinesis has been studied comparatively by administering BaSO4 and normal food respectively, labelled with 1 mCi of 99mTc-DTPA. The results are discussed and the differences observed are stressed. These confirm the non-physiological nature of the conventional opaque paste employed in X-ray diagnosis.

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