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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 …