Transplant Volume is Associated with Graft Acceptance Threshold and Center Resource Availability
Across the nation, a shortage of available organ donors significantly delays heart failure patients ’ time to transplant. The median national waitlist time is 9.3 months 1 with a roughly 8% waitlist mortality. However, despite this costly delay, only 36% of 82,053 potential donor hearts were transplanted between 1995 and 2010. 2
Source: Journal of Cardiac Failure - Category: Cardiology Authors: Chen CW, Auvil BJ, Zhang JC, Chung JJ, Gaffey AC, Bermudez CA, Goldberg LR, Acker MA, P Atluri Source Type: research