Just a number? Donor age and (lack of) associated reasons for heart offer refusal.
J Heart Lung Transplant
; 2024 Jul 31.
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ABSTRACT
The use of 50+ year-old donors for heart transplant (HT) is rare in the United States. We assessed reasons for this-and whether it reflects concern about age itself or associated risk factors-using a survey of US HT centers. The Donor Heart Study enrolled US adult potential heart donors from 2015 to 2020. A total of 6,814 surveys across 2,197 donors cited, on average, 2.4 reasons (per donor) for offer refusal. Age was cited often (by ≥50% of centers surveyed) for 715 donors (33%). In this subgroup, accompanying donor-related reasons for refusal were infrequent, with no cardiac abnormality cited in most cases. Donor age showed associations with (1) age as a reason for refusal and (2) discard. Both abruptly increased at age 50 55% of 50 to 51-year-old donors were refused often due to age (vs 38% of 48-49-year-olds), and 72% were discarded (vs 55% of 48-49-year-olds), despite no evidence of a threshold effect of age on outcomes.
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J Heart Lung Transplant
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CARDIOLOGIA
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TRANSPLANTE
Ano de publicação:
2024
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