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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Sep 8.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2025 Feb;25(2 Suppl 1):S329–S421. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.01.024

Table HR 10: Transplant characteristics of adult heart transplant recipients, 2013 and 2023.

Heart transplant recipients, including retransplant recipients. DBD, donation after brain death; DCD, donation after circulatory death.

Characteristic 2013 N 2013 Percent 2023 N 2023 Percent

Waiting time
<1 day 0 0 1 0.0
1-<90 days 985 46.0 3,069 75.0
3-<6 months 377 17.6 372 9.1
6-<12 months 357 16.7 270 6.6
1-<2 years 298 13.9 186 4.5
2+ years 126 5.9 194 4.7
Previous transplant for recipients
No prior transplant 2,063 96.3 3,970 97.0
Prior transplant 80 3.7 122 3.0
Donation after circulatory death
DBD 2,143 100.0 3,488 85.2
DCD 0 0 604 14.8
Transplant type
Heart only 2,025 94.5 3,541 86.5
Heart-kidney 85 4.0 421 10.3
Heart-lung 16 0.7 53 1.3
Heart-liver 16 0.7 70 1.7
Other multiorgan 1 0.0 7 0.2
All recipients
All recipients 2,143 100.0 4,092 100.0

OPTN/SRTR 2023 Annual Data Report