{"doi":"10.1111/ctr.14591","title":"Long‐term outcomes after heart transplantation using ex vivo allograft perfusion in standard risk donors: A single‐center experience","abstract":"INTRODUCTION: The Organ Care System (OCS) is an ex vivo perfusion platform for donor heart preservation. Short/mid-term post-transplant outcomes after its use are comparable to standard cold storage (CS). We evaluated long-term outcomes following its use. METHODS: Between 2011 and 2013, 38 patients from a single center were randomized as a part of the PROCEED II trial to receive allografts preserved with CS (n = 19) or OCS (n = 19). Endpoints included 8-year survival, survival free from graft-related deaths, freedom from cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), non-fatal major adverse cardiac events (NF-MACE), and rejections. RESULTS: Eight-year survival was 57.9% in the OCS group and 73.7% in the CS group (p = .24). Freedom from CAV was 89.5% in the OCS group and 67.8% in the CS group (p = .13). Freedom from NF-MACE was 89.5% in the OCS group and 67.5% in the CS group (p = .14). Eight-year survival free from graft-related death was equivalent between the two groups (84.2% vs. 84.2%, p = .93). No differences in rejection episodes were observed (all p > .5). CONCLUSIONS: In select patients receiving OCS preserved allografts, late post-transplant survival trended lower than those transplanted with an allograft preserved with CS. This is based on a small single-center series, and larger numbers are needed to confirm these findings.","journal":"Clinical Transplantation","year":2022,"id":281894,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":7,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9475,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":957542,"name":"Tahli Singer‐Englar","orcid":"0000-0002-8169-0781","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":270999,"name":"Jon Kobashigawa","orcid":"0000-0001-9308-3172","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":788831,"name":"Amy Roach","orcid":"0000-0002-6154-1199","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":788830,"name":"Dominic Emerson","orcid":"0000-0001-5728-0152","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":859070,"name":"Dominick Megna","orcid":"0000-0003-4296-3537","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":582521,"name":"Danny Ramzy","orcid":"0000-0002-1445-6610","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":859072,"name":"Pedro Catarino","orcid":"0000-0002-7328-5903","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":958012,"name":"Jignesh K. Patel","orcid":null,"position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":88921,"name":"M. Kittleson","orcid":"0000-0003-4492-2691","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":420102,"name":"L. Czer","orcid":"0000-0001-5744-2625","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":510913,"name":"Joanna Chikwe","orcid":null,"position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":198588,"name":"Fardad Esmailian","orcid":null,"position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":859069,"name":"Qiudong Chen","orcid":"0000-0002-2475-4312","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":25,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:29:15.734856Z","pmid":"35030278","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}