Racial disparities and outcomes of left ventricular assist device implantation as a bridge to heart transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study investigated outcomes after continuous flow left ventricular assist device (CF-LVAD) implantation as bridge to heart transplantation (BTT) in advanced heart failure patients stratified by race.

Methods and results

De-identified data from the United Network for Organ Sharing database was obtained for all patients who had a CF-LVAD as BTT from 2008 to 2018. Patients were stratified into four groups on the basis of ethnicity [Caucasian, African American (AA), Hispanic, and others (Asian, Pacific Islanders, and American Indian)]. Outcomes investigated were waitlist mortality or delisting and post-transplant 5 year survival. Cox proportional hazards modelling was used to identify independent predictors of waitlist mortality or delisting and post-transplant surviva

SUBMITTER: Okoh AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7524221 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature