Why the study?
Has long-term survival after heart transplantation improved over time despite worsening recipient and donor profiles?
Has long-term survival after heart transplantation improved over time despite worsening recipient and donor profiles?
Long-term survival following heart transplantation at a major US center has improved over 50 years despite increasingly complex patient and donor profiles.
In this half-century retrospective descriptive study from one of the largest heart transplant programmes in the USA, long-term survival after heart transplantation has improved over time despite increased recipient and donor age, worsening comorbidities, increased technical complexity, and prolonged total allograft ischaemia time. Further investigation is warranted to delineate factors associated with the excellent outcomes observed in this study.
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