You Can't Find What You Aren't Looking For: Over Half of Heart Transplant Patients Have Moderate or Strong Likelihood of Genetic Disease

Approximately half of patients undergoing heart transplant (HTX) have a primary cardiomyopathy. There is growing evidence for a genetic basis in many primary cardiomyopathies, with HFSA guidelines recommending genetics evaluations for many of these. We sought to assess the frequency of genetic disease in a single HTX center.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - March 31, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: T.G. Moscarello, Y. Moayedi, C. Caleshu, K. Khush, S. Purewal, J. Teuteberg Tags: (393) Source Type: research