TRENDS AND OUTCOMES OF HEART RE-TRANSPLANTATION: INSIGHTS FROM THE UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING (UNOS)

Donor and recipient-related factors may limit long-term graft survival and a selected subset of heart transplantation recipients are candidates for re-transplantation (HRT). However, outcomes of HRT are inferior to those of primary HT. HT recipients ≥ 18 years old that underwent HRT, were