The COVID-19 Pandemic and Adult Cardiac Transplantation: Impact, Interventions, and Implications.

ABSTRACT: In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adult heart transplantation. We highlight the decline in the number of adult transplantations performed throughout the pandemic as a consequence of restrictions imposed on individual programs and hospitals. There were challenges to maintaining cardiac transplant activity at multiple levels, including organ donation in intensive care units, logistical difficulties with organ procurement, and rapidly changing resource considerations at health system and jurisdictional levels. We also review the impact of COVID-19 on cardiac transplant recipients. Despite the high rates of morbidity and mortality observed during the initial phases of the pandemic among heart transplant patients infected with COVID-19

SUBMITTER: Chih S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10035809 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature