Heart transplantation in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A single-center case series.

Abstract:

:The infectious disease coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on solid organ transplantations, including heart transplantation, is currently unclear. Many transplant programs have been forced to swiftly re-evaluate and adapt their practices, leading to a marked decrease in transplants performed. This trend has been due to various factors, including increased donor COVID-19 screening scrutiny and recipient waiting list management in anticipation of COVID-19 critical care surge capacity planning. In the face of these unknown variables, determining when and how to proceed with transplantation in our population of patients with end-stage cardiomyopathies is challenging. Here, we describe our center's experience with orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) in one of the country's pandemic epicenters, where we performed eight OHTs in the first 2 months after community spread began in late February 2020.

journal_name

Clin Transplant

journal_title

Clinical transplantation

authors

Hsu JJ,Al-Saffar F,Ardehali R,Baas AS,Carlson M,Cruz D,Deng M,Fan A,Fraschilla S,Gaynor P,Kamath M,Kubak BM,Schaenman J,Stimpson E,Vucicevic D,Ardehali A,Nsair A

doi

10.1111/ctr.14042

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-09-01 00:00:00

pages

e14042

issue

9

eissn

0902-0063

issn

1399-0012

journal_volume

34

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