Scientific Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Introduction to The 2011 Annual Reports

Abstract

We enthusiastically present the 2011 Annual Reports of the Scientific Registry (the Registry) of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). The Registry has now collected, analyzed, and reported data for more than 142,000 heart, heart-lung, and lung transplants. We are delighted to announce a new reporting relationship with L’agence de la Biomedicine, which allows us, for the first time, to add to the Registry data related to more than 13,000 heart, heart-lung, and lung transplants performed in France between April 1968 and December 2009. The addition of the French data, in combination with continued participation of more than 200 other centers worldwide (Appendix), has resulted in the past year being our most active to date (Table 1). We also note a transition in Registry report authorship: Dr Christian Benden is the first author of this year’s Pediatric Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant report, and will assume the position of Associate Medical Director from Dr Paul Aurora, who has served extremely ably in that capacity since 2007. There are many ways to access the Transplant Registry data. As in past years, all of the data figures and tables included in the Registry reports are also available on the ISHLT Web site (www.ishlt.org/registries) in the Microsoft PowerPoint (Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA) format. The Web site also contains many additional data slides that are not included in the published reports. Those who wish to