First Annual IMACS Report: A global International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Support

James K Kirklin; Ryan Cantor; Paul Mohacsi; Jan Gummert; Theo De By; Margaret M Hannan; Robert L Kormos; Stephan Schueler; Lars H Lund; Takeshi Nakatani; Rhiannon Taylor; Jenny Lannon

doi:10.1016/j.healun.2016.01.002

First Annual IMACS Report: A global International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Support

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2016 Apr;35(4):407-12. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2016.01.002. Epub 2016 Jan 13.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
³ European Registry for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Cardiovascular Transplantation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Program for Mechanical Circulatory Support, Newcastle/Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁸ Department of Transplantation, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.
⁹ Statistics and Clinical Audit, National Health Service, Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom.

PMID: 26922275
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2016.01.002

Abstract

The first annual report of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (IMACS) registry provides global data on 5,942 patients from 31 countries. This initial report focuses on patient demographics, survival, device types, adverse events, competing outcomes, and a risk factor analysis.

Keywords: IMACS; International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation; adverse events; demographics; mechanical circulatory support; outcomes; patient survival; risk factors.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Cardiology*
Congresses as Topic*
Heart Failure / surgery*
Heart-Assist Devices / statistics & numerical data*
Heart-Lung Transplantation*
Humans
International Cooperation
Registries
Societies, Medical*