a Intravenous inotropes and/or intra-aortic balloon pump and/or temporary mechanical circulatory assistance Figure 1 – Donors flowchart. The actual number of accepted donors was 137 (59 transplants plus 78 that were rejected due to transportation unavailable)
Figure 2 – Bubble plot of donor scoring distribution according to recipient’s priority state prior to heart transplantation
Figure 3 – Actuarial survival plots by heart donor risk profile. Red line (0): patients transplanted with hearts from low-risk donor (<17 points); blue line (1): patients transplanted with hearts from high-risk donor (>17 points).
Figure 4 – Actuarial survival plots after heart transplantation by recipient’s age. Solid red line: recipient’s age less than 50 years with correspondent 95% confidence intervals; solid blue line: recipient’s age greater than 50 years with correspondent 95% confidence intervals.