Comparing Mid-Term Outcomes of Donation After Brain Death and Donation After Circulatory Death Orthotopic Heart Transplant Recipients-A Single-Center Retrospective UK Study.

Introduction: The number of patients on heart transplant waitlists is growing globally, with an insufficient number of organ offers to meet this growing demand. To help improve patient outcomes, in the United Kingdom (UK), orthotopic cardiac transplantation (OCTx) can occur using hearts donated following donor brain death (DBD) or donor circulatory death (DCD). The aim of this paper was to compare outcomes between groups of DBD and DCD OCTx patients at Harefield Hospital.