Short and Stout Female Donors in Heart Transplantation: Do They Make a Difference?

Certain donor characteristics after heart transplantation (HTx) may have less optimal outcome post-HTx. One factors leading to worse outcome is female donors to male recipient possibly due to size (height and weight) mismatch relative to male donors. We try to compensate for this size mismatch by using obese female donors into male recipients. However, there have been recent concerns with obese donors, in the sense that there are commonly large fat deposits on the donor heart. It is not known whether short and obese female donors (weight oversizing) results in acceptable outcome after HTx.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: 662 Source Type: research