Department of Medicine

Innovation in Heart Donation, Preservation Set to Shake Up Allocation

Written by TCTMD | October 18, 2023

Farr, along with Lauren Truby, (UT Southwestern Medical Center), and Prateeti Khazanie, (University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora), outlined some of the changes coming to the heart allocation system, and how DCD transplants are expected to influence them, in a commentary in JACC: Heart Failure. Farr and Khazanie also discussed some of these issues during a session at the recent Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) 2023 meeting.