Heart Transplant Outcomes Similar With COVID-19–Positive Donors

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Patients who receive hearts from COVID-19–positive donors will likely have short-term outcomes similar to those who receive hearts from COVID-19–negative donors, two retrospective analyses suggest.

COVID-19 rarely causes cardiac injury among young, healthy people; however, endothelial dysfunction and subcellular derangements might have longer-term consequences for a mild or subclinical infection in the transplanted organ, according to Clancy Mullan, MD, and colleagues at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. 
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