Current Practice of Heart Donor Evaluation in Germany: Multivariable Risk Factor Analysis Confirms Practicability of Guidelines

Table 1

Characteristics of heart transplants in Germany 2006–2010 (German donors only).

Heart transplants, 2006–2010 (𝑛=1863)	Frequency	Percent
Recipient only received the heart	1728	92.8
Recipient received heart and other organs	135	7.3
Rescue allocation	301	16.2
Recipient at the highest urgency level (HU)	1460	78.4
Retransplantation	43	2.3
Matching gender between donor and recipient^a	1272	68.3
Male donor/recipient female^a	105	5.6
Female donor/male recipient^a	485	26.0
Age of recipients (mean/median [25%/75% percentiles]) in years	46.5/51.0 [39/58]
Age of donors (mean/median [25%/75% percentiles]) in years	39.0/43.0 [27/50]

aGender missing: 𝑛=1.