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| 11/14/2008 |
Study: Same Sex Heart Transplants Have Better Results
(Undated) -- The prognosis for heart transplant patients is far better when the sex of the donor is the same as the patient's. Doctor Eric Weiss of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore made that discovery after looking at the records for more than 18-thousand heart transplant operations performed between 1998 and 2007. Some patients were followed for up to ten years. The findings: The survival rate was increased by 25-percent when the patient and donor were the same gender. When donor and recipient sexes matched there was a 13-percent lower risk of graft rejection in the first year, a 14-percent lower risk of rejection over the entire length of the study. The researcher discovered there was a 20-percent lower rate of death in the first year after the procedure.
The worst end results were found in men who had received hearts from smaller women. Women are also slightly more likely to reject transplants from males, an issue that might be linked to immune stimulation from an earlier pregnancy. The study findings were presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association in New Orleans. |
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