Scientific Registry of ISHLT: Introduction to the 2005 Annual Reports

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Published 1 August 2005

Marshall I. Hertz, MD; Mark M. Boucek, MD; Mario C. Deng, MD; Leah B. Edwards, PhD; Berkeley M. Keck, MPH; James K. Kirklin, MD; David C. Naftel, PhD; Amanda W. Rowe, BA; David O. Taylor, MD ; Elbert P. Trulock, MD

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2005 Aug; 24(8):939-44

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The Registry remains the world’s most comprehensive record of heart and lung transplant activity, practices and outcomes. At present, the Registry contains data on 70,201 heart transplants, 3,154 heart-lung transplants and 19,296 lung transplants. During the past year, more than 4,500 transplants reported from over 200 centers were added to the Registry. The Mechanical Circulatory Support Device (MCSD) database now includes data on 831 implantations reported from 60 centers worldwide.

The 2005 annual reports of the Scientific Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (the Registry) includes several new features in addition to the usual analyses. It expands the analyses of the use of newer immunosuppressive drugs and drug combinations, includes analyses of the influence of induction and maintenance immunosuppressive drugs and combinations on the incidence of acute rejection and survival after transplantation, and constructs hypothetical clinical scenarios that graphically illustrate the influence of various clinical parameters on heart and lung transplant outcomes.

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