High Rate of Transplantation Prior to Review of Status Exception Requests among Adult Heart Transplant Candidates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the United States heart allocation system, when transplant centers submit applications for status exceptions to increase waitlist priority, patients obtain the requested status upgrades immediately while their applications are sent to the regional review boards (RRBs) and reviewed retrospectively. How much time elapses between obtaining a status upgrade through exception and application receipt by the RRBs and how often transplants occur during this period is unknown.

Methods

Using the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), we identified all adult heart transplant candidates listed between October 18, 2018 and December 31, 2023 with submitted applications for status exceptions. We assessed 1) the amount of time elapsed between submission of except

SUBMITTER: Ahn DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12458605 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature