Heart transplant deaths spiked at OHSU before cardiologists quit

The year before four transplant cardiologists resigned from OHSU Hospital, the program experienced twice the number of patient deaths than expected, according to a report in The Oregonian. People who received a heart transplant at the hospital in the last two years are at 67 percent higher risk to die in the first year after the procedure than patients at comparable programs, according to The Oregonian, citing a July 2019 report from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. OHSU put the…
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