Increasing Heart Transplant Donor Pool by Liberalization of Size Matching

The heart transplant (HT) guidelines recommendation to match recipient and donors within 30% of body weight lacks a strong evidence base and is not well established in patients bridged to transplant with left-ventricular-assist-devices (LVAD). In light of scarcity of donor hearts we investigated the effect of size-mismatch on hemodynamics, one-year survival and length of stay (LOS) following HT.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - August 23, 2019 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Luise Holzhauser, Teruhiko Imamura, Nikhil Bassi, Takeo Fujino, Daisuke Nitta, Anthony J. Kanelidis, Nikhil Narang, Gene Kim, Jayant Raikhelkar, Catherine Murks, David Onsager, Tae Song, Takeyoshi Ota, Valluvan Jeevanandam, Gabriel Sayer, Nir Uriel Tags: Original Clinical Science Source Type: research