What is it about?
Over the first 25 years of heart transplantation at Papworth Hospital, we found that survival improved with advances in post-transplantation treatment, however, it hadn't improved further since the 1990s. This was because as care advanced, the groups of both the patients having transplants and the heart donors were widened out.
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Why is it important?
Papworth Hospital was at the forefront of heart transplantation, so it is important to understand the survival experience of transplant patients from this hospital over the first 25 years during which transplants were done.
Perspectives
It was a pleasure and a privilege to work with colleagues at Papworth Hospital, who have saved so many lives, and to try to understand the patients' experiences. I believe this paper was helpful to my colleagues at the Hospital and has also provided useful information to others around the world who work in heart transplantation.
Dr Kimberley Goldsmith
King's College London
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This page is a summary of: Twenty-Five Years of Heart Transplantation at Papworth Hospital: Changes in Factors Influencing Short- and Long-Term Patient Survival Over Time, The Open Transplantation Journal, July 2008, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1874418400802010013.
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