Ideal Body Weight Ratio for Donor‐to‐Recipient Size Matching in Heart Transplantation
The IBW model appears to be non-inferior to PHM. IBW penalized equally for both undersizing and oversizing, making it potentially an additional useful metric in the evaluation of donor-recipient size matching.
Authors
- Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4357-3533)
- Joseph E. Bavaria (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7145-0453)
- John W. Entwistle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1492-6483)
- Victoria Sanders
- Keshava Rajagopal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7017-7459)
- Nayeem Nasher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6476-7751)
- Christopher Pritting (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3842-4442)
- Charles W. Hoopes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7658-555X)
- J. Eduardo Rame (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2936-1702)
- Daler Rahimov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8055-6101)
- René Alvarez
Institutions
- Thomas Jefferson University (US)
- Bayhealth Foundation (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Transplantation
- Published
- 2025-10-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ctr.70369
- Primary Topic
- Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00