TY - JOUR
T1 - 91-Year-Old Allograft
T2 - Oldest Surviving Donor Heart Still Going: A Case Report
AU - Doctorian, T.
AU - Narasimha, D.
AU - Stoletniy, L.
AU - Sakr, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2017/9
Y1 - 2017/9
N2 - For patients with end-stage heart failure, heart transplantation remains one of the most successful therapies with excellent long-term survival rates. However, over the past few decades, there has been a worsening supply/demand mismatch given the rising epidemic of heart failure and the relatively fixed availability of donor hearts. In this case report, we describe the case of a 30-year-old woman who underwent transplantation with a 68-year-old donor heart and who has survived for 23 years without any major cardiac problems. To our knowledge, this patient has one of the oldest surviving donor hearts (91-year-old heart). Review of the latest guidelines and recent studies have demonstrated a gradual expansion of donor criteria to meet this critical shortage of donor organs.
AB - For patients with end-stage heart failure, heart transplantation remains one of the most successful therapies with excellent long-term survival rates. However, over the past few decades, there has been a worsening supply/demand mismatch given the rising epidemic of heart failure and the relatively fixed availability of donor hearts. In this case report, we describe the case of a 30-year-old woman who underwent transplantation with a 68-year-old donor heart and who has survived for 23 years without any major cardiac problems. To our knowledge, this patient has one of the oldest surviving donor hearts (91-year-old heart). Review of the latest guidelines and recent studies have demonstrated a gradual expansion of donor criteria to meet this critical shortage of donor organs.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.transproceed.2017.06.006
DO - 10.1016/j.transproceed.2017.06.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 28838460
SN - 0041-1345
VL - 49
SP - 1663
EP - 1666
JO - Transplantation Proceedings
JF - Transplantation Proceedings
IS - 7
ER -