INFLUENCE OF DONOR AND RECIPIENT SEX MISMATCH ON HEART TRANSPLANT OUTCOMES: ANALYSIS OF THE ISHLT REGISTRY

摘要

BackgroundPrior studies have presented contradictory results after analyzing associations between donor and recipient sex on survival after heart transplantation and causes of death such as acute rejection (AR) and cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). We used the ISHLT Registry, the largest repository of heart transplant outcomes worldwide, to comprehensively address these questions.