Trends and Outcomes of Cardiac Transplantation in the Lowest Urgency Candidates.

ABSTRACT: Background Because of discrepancies between donor supply and recipient demand, the cardiac transplantation process aims to prioritize the most medically urgent patients. It remains unknown how recipients with the lowest medical urgency compare to others in the allocation process. We aimed to examine differences in clinical characteristics, organ allocation patterns, and outcomes between cardiac transplantation candidates with the lowest and highest medical urgency. Methods and Results We performed a retrospective analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing database. Patients listed for cardiac transplantation between January 2011 and May 2020 were stratified according to status at time of transplantation. Baseline recipient and donor characteristics, waitlist survival, and posttranspl

SUBMITTER: Fuery MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075266 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature