TY - JOUR AU - Claes, Sebastian AU - Berchtold-Herz, Michael AU - Zhou, Qian AU - Trummer, Georg AU - Bock, Matthias AU - Zirlik, Andreas AU - Beyersdorf, Friedhelm AU - Bode, Christoph AU - Grundmann, Sebastian PY - 2017 DA - 2017/03/07 TI - Towards a cardiac allocation score: a retrospective calculation for 73 patients from a German transplant center JO - Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery SP - 14 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Due to a growing discrepancy between the transplant waiting list and decreasing numbers of available donor hearts, cardiac transplantation rates in Germany have been declining in the past years. Currently, patients on the waiting list are prioritized by medical urgency and waiting time and therefore a majority of all cardiac transplants is performed in very ill patients. Recently, a different allocation algorithm was proposed that included predicted post-transplant survival as a parameter for organ allocation. So far, little data exists on how such a “Cardiac Allocation Score” (CAS) relates to our current transplant patient population and on how such a change in organ allocation could change clinical practice. SN - 1749-8090 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-017-0575-7 DO - 10.1186/s13019-017-0575-7 ID - Claes2017 ER -