Impact of various sizing metrics on female donor to male recipient heart transplant outcomes.
Nicholas R HessGavin W HickeyIbrahim S SultanYisi WangArman KilicPublished in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2021)
Female-to-male heart transplantation has the worst survival of all sex-matching combinations. Although female donors in this cohort are appropriately sized using traditional metrics, half are under-sized using pHM. This, combined with its strong association with mortality, underscores the importance of routine pHM assessment when evaluating female donors for male recipients.