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Surviving 20 Years After Heart Transplantation: A Success Story

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(13)01910-3/abstract

Author(s)

Hector Rodriguez Cetina Biefer, Simon H. Sündermann, Maximilian Y. Emmert, Frank Enseleit, Burkhardt Seifert, Frank Ruschitzka, Stephan Jacobs, Mario L. Lachat, Volkmar Falk, Markus J. Wilhelm

The authors report outcomes for recipients of heart transplants performed more than 20 years prior. Overall 20 year survival was 56%. Causes of mortality were similarly distributed among rejection, malignancy, infection, and allograft vasculopathy. Only 2 patients underwent retransplantation.