Associations between Mortality and Extended Risk Criteria
We compared the outcomes of the recipients receiving ECD hearts to those who received traditional-criteria donor hearts. We noted similar long-term mortality between the recipients of donor hearts with LVEF <60% compared to those with LVEF >60% (15.3% vs 14.8%, p=0.52), those with >50 offers compared to ≤ 50 offers (15.1% vs 16.7%, p=0.32), HCV, HBV, and HIV positive versus negative donors (15.2% vs 13.2%, p=0.18), and donors >500 compared to ≤500 miles from the transplant center (15.1% vs 16.0%, p=0.51) (Supplemental Table 2 ). However, when compared to recipients of donors ≤40 years, recipients of donor hearts >40 years of age had higher rates of overall post-OHT mortality (14.1% vs 18.4%, p<0.001).