Single Centre Experience with Prolonged Waiting Time on Transplant List with “High-Urgency” Status

Abstract

Because of the prolonged waiting time on the HU list, the earlier-mentioned data demonstrate a negative trend in transplant medicine. Especially when taking into consideration that five of seven patients who needed a VAD implantation during the HU waiting period had blood group O. Furthermore, the data derived from Eurotransplant show that the waiting period for patients with blood group O was considerably longer when compared with patients of the same average body height and weight but with other blood groups.