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Abbreviations: BO 5 bronchiolitis obliterans; GFR 5 glomerular fi ltration rate; HLAS 5 high lung allocation score; ILAS 5 intermediate lung allocation score; IRD 5 incidence rate of death; LAS 5 lung allocation score; LLAS 5 low lung allocation score; OPTN 5 Organ Procurement and Transplant Network; PGF 5 primary graft failure; UNOS 5 United Network of Organ Sharing

Background-Previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between increasing center volume and cardiac transplant outcomes. The purpose of this study was to confirm a relationship between post-heart transplant outcomes and center experience and to determine whether this relationship persists among low-and high-risk heart transplant recipient-donor pairs.

The data demonstrate that LV retraining has been highly effective in this select group of patients with CC-TGA. The data also demonstrate that the results of the double-switch procedure have been excellent at midterm follow-up. These results suggest that LV retraining and double switch offer a reliable strategy option for patients with CC-TGA.