title: Risk factors in heart transplantation. A statistical study of New Zealand cases.
abstract: The first heart transplantation in New Zealand was performed on December 2, 1987. This study covers all forty-five transplantations that were performed in New Zealand at Green Lane Hospital from that time through January 1994. Eleven patients from that group have died. The 30 day and 1, 2 and 4 year survival rates were found to be 91.1, 86.7, 80.0 and 75.6%, respectively. The mean waiting period of the patients for heart transplantation was 61.9 days. Only pulmonary vascular resistance was a statistically significant risk factor for early death after cardiac transplantation. Ischemic time was not a significant risk factor in this study.
authors.affiliation: Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, Green Lane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mathison
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Whitfield
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Haydock
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Kerr
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009520:New Zealand / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors; D014850:Waiting Lists