Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: twenty-fifth official adult heart transplant report--2008.

e a t d t n this twenty-fifth official report of the International ociety for Heart and Lung Transplant (ISHLT) Registry, e present information regarding 80,000 heart translants performed worldwide. As in prior years’ reorts, we focus our principal analysis on recently ransplanted patients—rather than the entire cohort of eart recipients—to provide a contemporary represenation of the state of heart transplantation.