Long-term outcome of orthotopic heart transplantation in Asians: An analysis of the United Network of Organ Sharing database

The demographics of patients undergoing orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) in the United States (US) have changed over the past 10 years; an increasing number of racial and ethnic minorities such as Asians are undergoing OHT.1 Preliminary analysis of the outcomes in patients of Asian origin have reported favorable results; the 1-year survival has been reported as 90% with a median survival of 14 years for those patients surviving the first year.2,3 Moreover, in Asian countries with adequate annual surgical experience (e.g.,>12 cases/year in a majority of centers), even with small sample size, better survival rates have been observed than in the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Registry data.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: RESEARCH CORRESPONDENCE Source Type: research