Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: A Quarter Century of Thoracic Transplantation

ide the an b he rt r p f the I ep n of c ith t stry. C wn i tted t tively p ata v affiliorts f ort r be o est a lung t dies r of s w ete a d app ed a s stical s ing R req to d the s gory o ulty A SHLT R c of r ties. T e: to o rom t ning o in e art a ulty A MD, M evelo a P v e are pleased to present the 2008 annual repor he Scientific Registry of the International Society eart and Lung Transplantation (the Registry). This arks the 25th anniversary of the Registry; since 1 he Registry has collected and reported data regard ore than 80,000 heart transplants and more t 9,000 lung and heart–lung transplants ( Table 1). The ast year has also been our most active to date, ,276 transplants added to the Registry from more 00 centers worldwide. Much gratitude is owed the m eart and lung transplant surgeons and physicians, clin oordinators, data coordinators and organ-exchange or izations (OEOs) throughout the world, whose timely ccurate submission of data has made attaining th ilestones possible (see Appendix). We also report some transitions in Registry re uthorship. This year Dr Richard Kirk authored ediatric Heart Transplant report; we thank Dr M oucek, author of the first 10 Pediatric Heart Transp eports, for his singular contribution to the Regis uccess. We also welcome Anna Kucheryavaya to egistry data analysis team. There are many ways to access the the ISHLT Re ata. As in past years, all of the data figures and ncluded in the Registry reports are also available iewing and downloading from the ISHLT web www.ishlt.org/registries) in MS P OWERPOINT format. he website also contains many additional data sl hat are not included in the published reports. Fur hose wishing to view the published heart, lung eart–lung and pediatric reports online may do so ontacting www.cardiosource.com. In addition to t nformation available in the published Registry repo nd slide sets, continentand center-specific data