Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Combined Organ Transplantation (From the United Network for Organ Sharing)

Studies have shown that highly selected patients undergoing combined heart-kidney (HK) and heart-liver transplants (HLv) have short- and long-term outcomes comparable to those observed in primary heart transplantation (HT). Adults patients with stage D heart failure that underwent combined HK, HLv and heart-lung (HL) were identified in the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) registry between 1991 and 2016, with follow-up through March 2018. We conducted inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) survival analysis of long-term survival stratified by type of combined organ transplant, accounting for donor, recipient and operative characteristics.
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research