The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: eighteenth official report—2001

JD Hosenpud, LE Bennett, BM Keck… - The Journal of heart …, 2001 - jhltonline.org
In this last report of the Registry's current administration, it is appropriate to review the
changes and growth of the Registry during our 7-year stewardship. The total number of
thoracic transplant recipients listed in the Registry has grown from 35,972 to more than
73,000 (see Table I). In addition to the increase in sheer volume of data, the breadth and
sophistication of the analyses increased, from descriptive and univariate survival analyses to
complex multivariate, risk-stratified data that investigate mortality as well as morbidity end …