Recipient-surgeon racial concordance in orthotopic heart transplantation outcomes.

Recipient-surgeon racial concordance and discordance among adults undergoing OHT do not appear to impact post-transplant survival. Nor do we observe significant penalties accruing for Black patients overall once controls are accounted for. Given that worse outcomes have historically been demonstrated for Black patients undergoing OHT, further work will be necessary to improve understanding of racial disparities for patients with end-stage heart failure.