Table 1. Medical background of included heart transplantation patients.

Subject	Sex	Age	IHD	HF	LVAD	NYHA	LVEF (%)	Cause of HF	Other diseases
1	M	66	No	Yes	Yes	IIIA	20	Idiopathic DCM	Ventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, previous stroke, diabetes type II, several episodes of salmonella sepsis
2	F	64	No	Yes	No	IIIB	20–30	Idiopathic DCM	Atrial fibrillation, diabetes type II, renal insufficiency, hypertension, previous malignancy, hypothyroidism
3	M	50	Yes	Yes	No	IIIA	35	Ischaemic DCM	Angina pectoris, previous CABG, diabetes type II, previous stroke, hypertension
4	F	60	No	Yes	No	IIIA	50	Cardiac Amyloidosis	Asthma, myeloma, PH
5	M	39	Yes	Yes	No	III	30	Ischaemic DCM	Previous MI with ventricular fibrillation, diabetes type I, diabetes retinopathy and nephropathy, PH
6	M	61	No	Yes	No	III	55	HCM due to prolonged atrial fibrillation	Ventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, previous stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, renal insufficiency
7	M	67	Yes	Yes	Yes	IIIA	30	Ischaemic DCM	Previous MI, atrial fibrillation, tricuspid regurgitation, renal insufficiency, hypertension
8	M	65	No	Yes	No	IIIA	35	Idiopathic DCM	ASD, considered unrelated to HF. Atrial fibrillation. Asthma.

Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of the included patients at the time for heart transplantation. When treated with LVAD, the last recorded LVEF prior to LVAD implantation was noted. IHD = Ischaemic heart disease, HF = Heart failure, NYHA = New York Heart Association Functional Classification, LVEF = Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction, DCM = Dilated cardiomyopathy, HCM = Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, CABG = Coronary artery bypass surgery, PH = Pulmonary hypertension, MI = Myocardial infarction, ASD = Atrial septum defect