Development of a Risk Score Predicting Survival After Adult Heart Transplantation in the United States

Kevin A. Lazenby, MD,1,2* Stratton Tolmie, BA,1* Kenley Barrett, PhD,3 Kevin C. Zhang, MS,3 Nikhil Narang, MD,4,5 Carine Jasseron, MS, PhD,6 Richard Dorent, MD,6 Kiran K. Khush, MD, MAS,7 William F. Parker, MD, MS, PhD3,8,9

Author affiliations: 1Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; 3Section of Pulmonary Critical Care, The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL; 4Advocate Heart Institute, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL; 5Department of Medicine, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL; 6Agence de la Biomédecine, Direction Prélèvement Greffe Organes-Tissus, Saint-Denis La Plaine, France; 7Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 8Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 9MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL