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Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 847-852 , August 2010

Temporal trends in heart transplantation from high-risk donors: Are there lessons to be learned? A multi-institutional analysis

Jose N. Nativi, MD
- Department of Cardiology, University of Utah Health Science Center, U.T.A.H. Cardiac Transplant Program, and VA Salt Lake City HCS, Utah
Robert N. Brown, BS
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
David O. Taylor, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Abdallah G. Kfoury, MD
- Department of Cardiology, Intermountain Medical Center, U.T.A.H. Cardiac Transplant Program, Salt Lake City, Utah
James K. Kirklin, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Josef Stehlik, MD, MPH
- Department of Cardiology, University of Utah Health Science Center, U.T.A.H. Cardiac Transplant Program, and VA Salt Lake City HCS, Utah
- Reprint requests: Josef Stehlik, MD, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, 50 N Medical Dr, 4A100 SOM, Salt Lake City, UT 84132. Telephone: 801-582-1565 (x4543). Fax: 801-584-2532
Cardiac Transplant Research Database Group

Trends of donor mean age (triangles) and allograft ischemic time (diamonds) from 1999 to 2007.

Trends of donor mean age (triangles) and allograft ischemic time (diamonds) from 1999 to 2007.
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Trends of donor female gender from 1999 to 2007.

Trends of donor female gender from 1999 to 2007.
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Trends of donor history of hypertension (black circles), diabetes mellitus (diamonds), and abnormal donor echocardiogram (Xs) from 1999 to 2007.

Trends of donor history of hypertension (black circles), diabetes mellitus (diamonds), and abnormal donor echocardiogram (Xs) from 1999 to 2007.
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