There is increased scrutiny on the quality in health care with particular emphasis on
institutional heart transplant survival outcomes. An important aspect of successful …

As the rapidly aging population and the rising incidence of end-stage heart failure, extensive
research has been conducted on heart transplantation (HTx). Bibliometrics harbors the …

Importance The US heart allocation policy was changed on October 18, 2018. The
association of this change with recipient and donor selection and outcomes remains to be …

This 39th annual international adult heart transplant report focuses on transplantation for
heart disease with restrictive physiology, that is, restrictive cardiomyopathies and …

The proposed donor heart selection guidelines provide evidence-based and expert-
consensus recommendations for the selection of donor hearts following brain death. These …

Background A severe shortage of available donor organs has created an impetus to use
extended criteria organs for heart transplantation. Although such attempts increase donor …

Objectives This study aims to understand the complex factors affecting heart transplant
survival and to determine the importance of possible sex-specific risk factors. Background …

Clinical prognostic models derived from largescale healthcare data can inform critical
diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. To enable off-theshelf usage of machine learning (ML) …

BACKGROUND Heart transplantation (HT) from donation after circulatory death (DCD) has
yet to achieve wide clinical application despite the encouraging resultsreported recently. In …

BACKGROUND: The leading causes of constrictive pericarditis have changed over time
leading to a commensurate change in the indications and complexity of surgical …