Medical decisions in organ donors and heart transplant candidates with history of COVID-19 infection: An international practice survey.
Ben SadehSharon UgoliniOmar Wever PinzonEvgenij V PotapovCraig H SelzmanFeras BaderAndreas O ZuckermannJuan Esteban Gomez-MesaKevin S ShahRami AlharethiPaola Morejon-BarraganThomas HanffLivia A GoldraichMarta FarreroPeter S MacDonaldStavros DrakosMandeep R MehraJosef StehlikPublished in: Clinical transplantation (2022)
Our results reflect evolving experience of the heart transplant field at a time of lack of high-quality evidence. In the absence of longer-term outcome data for donors and transplant candidates with history of COVID-19 infection, clinicians remain cautious; however, this approach will likely need to be refined as an increasing proportion of the population will continue to be infected with COVID-19.