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  • Title: Recommendations for use of everolimus after heart transplantation: results from a Latin-American Consensus Meeting.
    Author: Bocchi EA, Ahualli L, Amuchastegui M, Boullon F, Cerutti B, Colque R, Fernandez D, Fiorelli A, Olaya P, Vulcado N, Perrone SV.
    Journal: Transplant Proc; 2006 Apr; 38(3):937-42. PubMed ID: 16647515.
    Abstract:
    Despite improvements during the last decades, heart transplantation remains associated with several medical complications, which limit clinical outcomes: acute rejection with hemodynamic compromise, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections, allograft vasculopathy, chronic renal failure, and neoplasias. Everolimus, a proliferation signal inhibitor, represents a new option for adjunctive immunosuppressive therapy. Everolimus displays better efficacy in de novo heart transplant patients than azathioprine for prophylaxis of biopsy-proven acute rejection episodes of at least ISHLT grade 3A (P < .001), of allograft vasculopathy (P < .01), and of CMV infections (P < .01). These findings suggest that everolimus potentially play an important role as part of immunosuppressive therapy in heart transplant recipients. Heart transplant investigators from Latin America produced recommendations for everolimus use in daily practice based on available data and their own experience.
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