Evaluation of Risk Factors for Heart-Lung Transplant Recipient Outcome: An Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database.

CONCLUSIONS: HLTx outcomes may be improved by considering the strong influence of donor age, recipient sex, recipient hemodynamic status, and transplant center volume. Marginal donors and recipients without significant factors contributing to poor post-HLTx outcomes may still be considered for transplantation, potentially with less impact on the risk of early postoperative death or retransplant.
PMID: 31589491 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Circulation - October 7, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Shudo Y, Wang H, Lingala B, He H, Kim FY, Hiesinger W, Lee AM, Boyd JH, Currie M, Woo YJ Tags: Circulation Source Type: research