ABO-Identical Blood Group Matching Has No Survival Benefit for AB Heart Transplant Recipients.

Summary, in English

Although identical blood group matching is preferred, it is uncertain if this results in improved survival and, if so, how large the survival benefits are. Earlier studies have yielded conflicting results and are mostly based on single-center cohorts with few long-term results. Recipients with blood group AB are of particular interest regarding nonidentical blood group matching because they may receive organs from all blood groups. We wanted to test the hypothesis that ABO-identical matching results in superior survival in recipients with blood group AB.

• Author: Henrik Bergenfeldt; Peter Höglund; Bodil Andersson; Göran Rådegran; Mattias Ohlsson; Johan Nilsson
• Department/s: Thoracic Surgery; Division of Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology; Surgery (Lund); Cardiology; Computational Biology and Biological Physics - Undergoing reorganization; Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics - Undergoing reorganization; Artificial Intelligence in CardioThoracic Sciences (AICTS); Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics in Cardiothoracic Sciences (AIBCTS); Heart and Lung transplantation
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Pages: 762-769
• Publication/Series: Annals of Thoracic Surgery
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 3
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25597790?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.10.031
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems; Surgery
• Status: Published
• Project: Pancreatic cancer
• Research group: Artificial Intelligence in CardioThoracic Sciences (AICTS); Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics in Cardiothoracic Sciences (AIBCTS); Heart and Lung transplantation
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1552-6259