Heart Lung St Vincent’s transplant numbers between 2004-2009 156 258 Average age in yrs 47.73 43.27 gender 44 female (28.2%) 121 female (46.9%) Average days spend on waiting list 229.5 196.7 Premorbid use of 0xygen N/A 157 (71.7%) * Premorbid use of cardiac assistive device or inotropic meds 32 LVAD, balloon, bivent assist 5 inotropic meds (23.7% in total using assistive devices) # N/A Premorbid NYHA dyspnoea grade 3 and 4 118 (75.6%) N/A Premorbid 6min Walk test average numbers of metres N/A 311.4m Three Most common causes of transplantation Idiopathic Dilated cardiomyopathy (47.4%), Ischaemic cardiomyopathy (26.9%), Miscellaneous heart conditions(18.5%) Cystic fibrosis (25.6%), Emphysyma (12.7%), Alpha antitrypsin deficiency (8.5%) 39 subject’s Oxygen use unknown* LVAD= Left Ventricular Assistive Device; Bivent Assist = Biventricular Assistive Device; Ionotropic Meds = The Permanent Use of an Infusion of Dobutamine and Other Drugs an Order to Maintain Blood Pressure #

Table 6: Demographics and pre-transplant data on patients transplanted with either heart or lung transplants at St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney from January 2002 to June 2009.