Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Jan 2019
Dual-organ transplantation in older recipients: outcomes after heart-kidney transplant versus isolated heart transplant in patients aged ≥65 years.
Combined heart-kidney transplantation has successful outcomes. With an increasing number of patients with end-stage heart disease, there is a high incidence of significant renal insufficiency that may necessitate combined heart-kidney transplant. Outcomes for heart-kidney transplant recipients aged ≥65 years are not well described. ⋯ For patients ≥65 years old, heart-kidney transplant can achieve outcomes on par with heart transplant alone.