William Atkins
Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:47
Science -
Health
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Johns Hopkins University researchers discover that hearts from same-gender donors are better for the survival rates of heart transplant recipients.
The results by the Johns Hopkins researchers were presented on November 12, 2008, at the American Heart Association’s annual
Scientific Sessions meeting in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. (which the AHA proudly states is only held in cities that are “smoke-free”).
Eric S. Weiss led the researchers that included Nishant D. Patel, Stuart D. Russell, William A. Baumgartner, Ashish S. Shah, and John V.Conte. They are all from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Their paper is entitled “
The Impact of Donor-Recipient Gender Pairing On Survival Following Orthotopic Heart Transplantation - An Analysis Of Over 18,000 Matches.”
The researchers suggested in their abstract that the gender (male or female) of heart donors may be an important factor in the survival rates following orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT).
Dr. Weiss states,
“’This was something that was speculated’ based on smaller studies from single institutions… With the new findings, he says, ‘we basically supported the hypothesis.’” [Science News: “
Gender matters in heart transplants”, subscription may be required]
Therefore, they researched the nationwide United Network for Organ Sharing (
UNOS) database to see for themselves if this was indeed true.
The results follow on page two.
