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Thirty-Year Trends in Graft Survival After Heart Transplant: Modeled Analyses of a Transplant Registry

Friday, April 29, 2022

Submitted by

Christopher Anderson

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.08.023

Author(s)

Marlena E. Sabatino, BA Matthew L. Williams, MD Ike S. Okwuosa, MD Ehimare Akhabue, MD Jung Hyun Kim, PhD, MPH Mark J. Russo, MD, MS Soko Setoguchi, MD, DrPH

An epidemic in the United States is Heart failure, and transplantation remains the most definitive therapy. We describe multidecade trends in posttransplant graft survival, adjusted for concurrent changes in the population, over the 30 years antecedent to the most recent heart allocation policy change.