This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Search
Skip to Search Results- 4Heart transplantation
- 1ABO blood group
- 1ABO-incompatible infant heart transplantation
- 1ABO-incompatible transplantation
- 1B cell tolerance
- 1B cells
- 1Biffis, Kimberly M
- 1Budz, B.
- 1Mainardi Aguiar da Silva, Guilherme
- 1Molzahn, A. E.
- 1Qi, Xiao
- 1Starzomski, R.
-
B cell Tolerance Mechanisms Following ABO-incompatible Infant Heart Transplant: A Potential Role for CD22
DownloadSpring 2015
Due to presumed immune immaturity, infants are able to accept heart transplants across the ABO barrier, a procedure that would result in catastrophic consequences if performed in adults. Our group has demonstrated that following ABO-incompatible heart transplantation (ABOi HTx), infants develop...
-
2010
Budz, B., Molzahn, A. E., Young, L. E., Starzomski, R.
Family caregiving is central in the heart transplant (HT) process. METHOD: Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, study data were collected from 12 health professionals and 15 families in which one member was a HT recipient throughout three phases of the HT process. FINDINGS: Our...
-
Hypothermic and Subnormothermic Ex-situ Heart Perfusion: Examining Diverse Strategies and Their Effects on Heart Function Preservation
DownloadFall 2024
Mainardi Aguiar da Silva, Guilherme
The number of people suffering from heart failure grows annually. For those people who have advanced heart failure and are eligible for a heart transplant, this is the gold standard procedure to treat them. Allowing not only an improvement in quality of life but also an increase in...
-
Spring 2022
The overall goal of this study is to improve the protocols for Ex Situ heart perfusion (ESHP) to better preserve the function and viability of donated hearts. ESHP has emerged as a new method of donor heart preservation. Unlike the standard cold storage technique, in ESHP, the heart is perfused...