Clinical Outcomes for Heart‐Alone and Multiorgan Transplant Under the New Heart Allocation Policy Era
Under the new policy, waitlist deaths have decreased for patients awaiting heart alone, but not for those awaiting multiorgan transplants. Post-transplant survival remains lower for patients who underwent multiorgan transplant (compared with heart-alone transplant), with no change under the new policy.
Authors
- Ravi Dhingra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0110-3223)
- Didier A. Mandelbrot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3326-8583)
- Keshvi Chauhan
- Takushi Kohmoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2079-2530)
- Timothy Hess (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6236-7006)
Institutions
- Froedtert Hospital (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Medical College of Wisconsin (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the American Heart Association
- Published
- 2025-03-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1161/jaha.124.036687
- Primary Topic
- Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00