Primary Graft Failure after Heart Transplantation

Table 2

Risk factors for primary graft failure.

Donor factors	Recipient factors	Procedural factors
Age [2, 5, 7, 9, 16, 33]	Age [3, 33]	Ischaemic time [2, 3, 7, 9, 11, 33]
Cardiac dysfunction on echo [2, 3, 11]	Ventilator support [2]	Donor recipient weight mismatching [2]
High-dose inotropic support [3, 6, 34]	Intravenous inotropic support [9], Mechanical support [3, 5]	Female donor to male recipient [2, 5, 35]
Cause of brain death [3, 36]	Pulmonary hypertension [17, 29–31]	Concomitant lung retrieval [5]
Primary graft dysfunction of other organs [8]	Overweight [37], Diabetes mellitus [9]