[The state of heart transplantation in Hungary].

The first heart transplantation was performed in 1992 in Hungary. In the last nearly ten years 42 patients have got new heart. Among them 16 died. Authors discuss the changes of the surgical techniques and the postoperative treatment during this period, and what results were obtained with these new methods. They deal with problems, why so small number of the transplantations were performed. The causes of the death of the 16 patients were discussed.