Quality of life and satisfaction after heart transplantation

For persons with terminal heart disease heart transplantation has become the chosen method of therapy. The overall aim has been and remains to assess the long-term therapeutic value-for patients, for whom neither standard forms of medication nor the usual surgical treatments are of any benefit. Improved suppression of graft rejection resulting from the discovery of cyclosporine in 1969 and its regular therapeutic application since 1980 triggered a sharp increase in he art transplantation worldwide [1].