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Angiography of potential cardiac donors

Paul J. Hauptman, MD^*, Kevin J. O’Connor, MS, Robert E. Wolf, MS and Barbara J. McNeil, MD, PhD

^* Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
The New England Organ Bank, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

View larger version (25K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Schema outlining the distribution of the 367 donors between the ages of 40 and 65 inclusive during the study period of January 1993 to June 1997. At least one solid organ was procured from each donor.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier plot comparing survival posttransplant among recipients of donors 40 who did (dashed line) or did not (solid line) undergo angiography before heart procurement. Significant at the p = 0.017 level. See text for details.