ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2020
Great variability in donor heart acceptance practices across the United States.
Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Donor Selection for Heart Transplantation in 2025.JACC. Heart failure · 2025Review
- Cold precision: Enhancing organ preservation with controlled hypothermia.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2024Article
- Disparities in donor heart acceptance between the USA and Europe: clinical implications.European heart journal · 2023Article
- Rethinking Donor and Recipient Risk Matching in Europe and North America: Using Heart Transplant Predictors of Donor and Recipient Risk.Circulation. Heart failure · 2023Article
- Is it too soon to abandon all hope of useful post-transplant predictions in thoracic transplantation? Reply to: Expecting the unexpected, and prioritizing the predictable.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2022Article
- Expecting the unexpected, and prioritizing the predictable.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2022Article
- Donor Utilization in the Recent Era: Effect of Sex, Drugs, and Increased Risk.Circulation. Heart failure · 2022Article
- Heart Transplant Donor Selection Guidelines: Review and Recommendations.Current cardiology reports · 2022Review
- The adapted Heart Donor Score.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2021Article
- Designing a patient-specific search of transplant program performance and outcomes: Feedback from heart transplant candidates and recipients.Clinical transplantation · 2021Article
- Impact of the new heart allocation policy on patients with restrictive, hypertrophic, or congenital cardiomyopathies.PloS one · 2021Article
- Better Is the Enemy of Good: Ever-changing Heart Transplant Allocation.Transplantation direct · 2021Article
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Abstract
Disparities in organ acceptance practices exacerbate donor heart nonuse and lead to increased waiting times and mortality for heart transplant candidates. We studied disparities in donor heart acceptance among US transplant centers and their relations to posttransplant outcomes. Candidate, potential transplant recipient match run, and deceased donor data were obtained from the United Network for Organ Sharing. We analyzed donor, candidate, and transplant center characteristics with respect to organ acceptance, offer acceptance, number of offers before acceptance (organ sequence number), and association with posttransplant mortality. A total of 693 420 donor heart offers made between April 2007 and December 2015 were included. We identified great variability in donor heart acceptance practices among US heart transplant centers. We identified donor and recipient characteristics that were strongly associated with heart organ and offer acceptance, and organ sequence number, and identified inconsistencies among centers with respect to how these characteristics influenced acceptance decisions. Finally, we identified characteristics that were highly predictive of donor heart nonuse and were not associated with increased recipient mortality, which may guide future efforts aimed at increasing use of available hearts for transplantation.
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