Changes in US heart transplant waitlist activity, volume during COVID-19 pandemic

What The Study Did:

National and regional changes in waitlist inactivations and additions, donor recovery and heart transplant volume during the COVID-19 pandemic are described in this observational study.

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Ersilia M. DeFilippis, M.D., of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, is the corresponding author.

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