The Korean Organ Transplant Registry (KOTRY): Third Official Adult Heart Transplant Report.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The Korean Organ Transplant Registry (KOTRY) provided data for this third official report on adult heart transplantation (HT), including information from 709 recipients.

Methods

Data from HTs performed at seven major centers in Korea between March 2014 and December 2020 were analyzed, focusing on immunosuppression, acute rejection, cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), post-transplant survival, and mechanical circulatory support (MCS) usage.

Results

The median ages of the recipients and donors were 56.0 and 43.0 years, respectively. Cardiomyopathy and ischemic heart disease were the most common preceding conditions for HT. A significant portion of patients underwent HT at waiting list status 1 and 0. In the multivariate analysis, a predicted

SUBMITTER: Choi HI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11875971 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature