AHA Launches Transplant Data Initiative

The American Heart Association (AHA) has launched a new initiative designed to improve data-gathering and innovation around heart transplants.

The heart-transplant research network, announced June 3, comprises 15 research centers across the United States. AHA will set up a new database intended to gather more robust data around heart transplants, particularly around the recovery of transplant patients. AHA will also provide grants to research centers to better investigate treatments for those patients, particularly in cases of infection or transplant rejections.

According to AHA Chief Science and Medical Officer Mariell Jessup, M.D., FAHA, research around patient responses to heart transplants have lagged, largely due to a perception that there are few options if a patient fares poorly after the procedure. 

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