4031 Heart Transplant Candidates Listed at Low First-Offer Organ Acceptance Rate Centers are More Likely to Die Waiting

OBJECTIVES/GOALS: We sought to examine: 1) variability in center acceptance patterns for heart allografts offered to the highest-priority candidates, 2) impact of this acceptance behavior on candidate survival, and 3) post-transplantation outcomes in candidates who accepted first rank offer vs. prev...

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Main Authors: Ashley Y Choi, Michael S. Mulvihill, Hui-Jie Lee, Congwen Zhao, Maragatha Kuchibhatla, Jacob N. Schroder, Chetan B. Patel, Christopher B. Granger, Matthew G. Hartwig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059866120003969/type/journal_article