Factors associated with long-term survival following cardiac transplantation

By improving short and long-term survivals, cardiac transplantation would be a more realistic curative treatment modality. The aim of this study was to evaluate factors associated with the long-term survival following cardiac transplantations in our center. Forty-four patients were operated on cardiac transplantation between 1989 and November 2006. The study was designed in a retrospective manner and all data were collected from hospital records. Our study population consisted of 16 patients (Group A) who survived >1 month, but died