Recovery With Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support While Waitlisted for Heart Transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 2018 U.S. heart allocation system offers an accelerated pathway for heart transplantation to the most urgent patients.

Objectives

This study sought to determine whether the new allocation system resulted in lower likelihood of candidate recovery.

Methods

Adult patients waitlisted for heart transplantation with temporary mechanical circulatory support at the time of initial listing between 2010 and 2020 in the United Network for Organ Sharing registry were included. Competing events of heart transplantation, waitlist death or delisting for deteriorating condition, and delisting for improved condition (candidate recovery) were analyzed in the new vs old heart allocation system.

Results

A total of 688 patients were waitlisted with venoarterial extra

SUBMITTER: Topkara VK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8928585 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature