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- Title
Optimizing the Use of Heart Transplant in the United States.
- Authors
Sandhu, Alexander T.; Woo, Y. Joseph; Khush, Kiran K.
- Abstract
The author reflects on the survival benefits of patients who underwent heart transplants in transplant centers in the U.S. from 2005 to 2017. Topics include the mortality rate of patients on the transplant waiting list, the effectiveness of centrifugal flow left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation in reducing risk of stroke or reoperation, and the difference between waiting list mortality and posttransplant mortality among the patients.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HEART transplantation
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2019, Vol 322, Issue 18, p1772
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2019.16002