Results of heart transplantation: 18 years experience in University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb

Results In-hospital mortality was 12%. The median follow-up was 20 months. The global survival rates at 1, 5, and 10 years were 82%, 77%, and 62% respectively. The mean survival is 105 months (95% CI, 93.4-118.3). Early main causes of death were sepsis (41%) and primary graft failure (29%) and late causes were late rejection (20%), malignant disease and other causes (10%). Conclusion In our center, post-HTx survival rates at 1, 5, and 10 years were even better than those reported by the International