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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:
Overview
There are no established risk factors that lead to cardiac transplantation. Cardiac transplant is the end result of heart failure and the common risk factors in the development of heart failure include hypertension, diabetes, coronary disease, and obesity.
Risk Factors
Risk factors for poor outcome post-transplantation can be due to donor-specific characteristics, recipient-specific characteristics, and risk factors due to interactions between the donor and recipient.
Donor factors
Both the following factors are associated with an increased one-year mortality rate in the recipient.
Recipient factors
- Use of total artificial heart as a bridge to transplant or a need for end-organ support in the form of mechanical ventilation or dialysis- associated with the greatest one-year mortality
- Best prognosis is seen if the indication for transplant is ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy [2]
- Patients with a history of congenital heart disease, restrictive cardiomyopathy, and those undergoing retransplantation have a worse prognosis.
- Younger recipients (below age 55) have an advantage
- Pre-transplant serum creatinine and total bilirubin are linearly related to survival.
Some other risk factors are:
- Use of Amiodarone pretransplantation
- Hypertension
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Diabetes
- Renal insufficiency
- Use of specific immunosuppressive regimen
- Elevated body mass index
- Tobacco use
- Obesity
- Early post-transplant complications
- Prior cardiac surgery
- Transplantation of a female heart into a male or female recipient
References
- ↑ Potapov, Evgenij V.; Loebe, Matthias; H??bler, Michael; Musci, Michele; Hummel, Manfred; Weng, Yu-guo; Hetzer, Roland (1999). "MEDIUM-TERM RESULTS OF HEART TRANSPLANTATION USING DONORS OVER 63 YEARS OF AGE1". Transplantation. 68 (12): 1834–1838. doi:10.1097/00007890-199912270-00002. ISSN 0041-1337.
- ↑ Khush, Kiran K.; Cherikh, Wida S.; Chambers, Daniel C.; Goldfarb, Samuel; Hayes, Don; Kucheryavaya, Anna Y.; Levvey, Bronwyn J.; Meiser, Bruno; Rossano, Joseph W.; Stehlik, Josef (2018). "The International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Thirty-fifth Adult Heart Transplantation Report—2018; Focus Theme: Multiorgan Transplantation". The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 37 (10): 1155–1168. doi:10.1016/j.healun.2018.07.022. ISSN 1053-2498.