Elderly Heart Transplant Patients Have 5-Year Survival Similar to Younger Recipients

(Reuters Health) – Survival of elderly heart transplant recipients at five years is similar to that of younger recipients even though older adults are more likely to get organs from higher-risk donors, a recent study suggests. Researchers examined data on 57,285 adults listed for heart transplantation from 2000 to 2018, including 1,203 (2.1%) patients aged […]