Long-Term Outcomes of Orthotopic Heart Transplantation in Patients with Cardiac Amyloidosis: Differential Survival by Amyloid Type
Yerebakan H, Castano A, Ota T, George I, Hwang L, Jones S, Ryus C, Naroji S, Alvarez J, Naka Y, Takayama H, Maurer M. Long-Term Outcomes of Orthotopic Heart Transplantation in Patients with Cardiac Amyloidosis: Differential Survival by Amyloid Type. The Journal Of Heart And Lung Transplantation 2013, 32: s111. DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2013.01.231.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCardiac amyloidosisCAM patientsHeart transplantationTerm outcomesAL patientsOrthotopic heart transplantationPreoperative serum creatinineLong-term outcomesKaplan-Meier estimatesMean survival timeATTR cardiac amyloidosisLong-term survivalActuarial survivalHospital mortalityTTR patientsCause mortalityPrimary endpointSerum creatinineCell transplantationSystemic diseaseTTR groupsAL amyloidSurvival timeBetter survivalPatients