Use of extended criteria donor hearts in combined heart-kidney transplant confers greater risk of mortality.
Max ShinAmit IyengarMark R HelmersWilliam L PatrickWilliam CohenNoah WeingartenDavid RekhtmanCindy SongPavan AtluriMarisa CevascoPublished in: The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation (2023)
Patients undergoing SHKT with an ECD heart face greater risks of mortality and graft failure in comparison to those undergoing IHT with ECD hearts. Careful selection of donor organs should be applied to this high-risk cohort.