Patients with heart transplants involving donation after circulatory death have no detectable difference in survival compared with those with hearts donated after brain death, according to a study published in Circulation: Heart Failure.
Using data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) registry, the researchers identified adult heart transplant recipients from January 2019 to September 2021 and used propensity-score matching to compare 1-year mortality between patients with hearts donated after circulatory death and those with hearts donated after brain death. Read more in Healio.