The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: thirty-fourth adult heart transplantation report—2017; focus theme: allograft ischemic time

LH Lund, KK Khush, WS Cherikh, S Goldfarb… - The Journal of Heart …, 2017 - jhltonline.org
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first heart transplant, performed in 1967. Since
then, and in particular since the introduction of cyclosporine immunosuppression in the
1970s, heart transplantation has grown worldwide. This 34th adult heart transplant report is
based on data submitted to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
(ISHLT) Registry on 135,387 heart transplants in recipients of all ages (including 120,991
adult heart transplants) through June 30, 2016. With each year's report we now also provide …