The past year has been notable for the multiple celebrations and symposia around the
globe commemorating the first heart transplant ever performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard
at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, on December 3, 1967, and the
first heart transplant performed in the United States by Dr. Norman Shumway at Stanford
Hospital on January 6, 1968. Since then, the field of heart transplantation has grown
dramatically, with steady increases in the number of heart transplants performed worldwide
annually, accompanied by improvement in post-transplant survival and other favorable
outcomes. Data on heart transplant donors, recipients, and clinical outcomes have
been reported to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)
International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry (Transplant Registry) by heart transplant
centers and collectives, and have been published in summary form by way of annual
reports. This 35th Annual Adult Heart Transplant Report is based on data submitted
to the ISHLT Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry on 141,268 heart transplants in recipients
of all ages (including 126,204 adult heart transplants) through June 30, 2017. The
focus theme of the 2018 annual report is multiorgan transplantation.
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