LVH in Donor Heart Does Not Increase Recipients' Risk of Death
May 16, 2011|Internal Medicine News
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FROM THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
The presence of LVH in a donor heart does not adversely affect the survival of transplant recipients, concluded Dr. Pinzon.
But "organ selection and allocation is not a random process," and transplantation involving hearts with moderate or severe LVH was rare. "This indicates that these patients were carefully selected, which can bias our results," he cautioned; therefore, the safety of using such hearts remains uncertain.
Dr. Pinzon reported that he had no relevant conflicts of interest.
