Medium-term outcome of recipients of marginal donor hearts selected with new stress-echocardiographic techniques over standard criteria

Table 2 Recipients of donors selected by echocardiographic techniques

	Donors aged > 55 years or with ≥ 3 risk factors	Donors with rest wall motion abnormalities	Donors with hemodynamic instability/LV dysfunction
Eligible transplanted hearts	N = 32	N = 3	N = 8
Cold ischemia time (minutes)	178 ± 26	161 ± 16	150 ± 19
Recipient characteristics
Age (years)	56 ± 9	53 ± 4	56 ± 7
Male gender	26	3	4
UNOS state
1A	2		3
1B	7
2	23	3	5
Recipient disease
DCM	9		3
DC CHD	12	1	3
DC Valvular	2		1
HCM	4	1
Restrictive CMP in amyloidosis	3		1
DC other	2	1
TX associated to heart TX	2 (Liver N = 1, Kidney N = 1)
Survivors N	27	3	7
FOLLOW-UP, months	44 ± 24	24 ± 7	31 ± 4
Death, N	5	-	1
Deaths (cause, post TX months)
PGF	2 (2 months)
Sepsis	1 (2 months)		1 (18 months)
Cancer	1 (16 months)
Recurrent systemic myeloma	1 (32 months)

CHD = Coronary heart disease; CMP = Cardiomyopathy; DC = Dilated cardiomyopathy; DCM = Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy; HCM = Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; PGF = Primary graft failure; TX = Heart transplant.

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