Heart Transplantation: An In-Depth Survival Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to understand the complex factors affecting heart transplant survival and to determine the importance of possible sex-specific risk factors.

Background

Heart transplant allocation is primarily focused on preventing waitlist mortality. To prevent organ wastage, future allocation must balance risk of waitlist mortality with post-transplantation mortality. However, more information regarding risk factors after heart transplantation is needed.

Methods

We included all adults (30,606) in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients database who underwent isolated heart transplantation from January 1, 2004, to July 1, 2018. Mortality (8,278 deaths) was verified with the complete Social Security Death Index with a median follow-up of 3.9 years.

SUBMITTER: Hsich EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725193 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature