Annual report of the Indian Heart and Lung Transplant Registry

Abstract

The Indian Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation started building up a cloud-based registry of heart and lung transplantation from 2018 to 2019. As a first step, the hospitals involved in these procedures were enrolled in a Cloud-based Google Sheet Registry. Data have been updated till April 2021. This brief communication is the first publication from this registry and lists the 72 hospitals which participated in this voluntary registry. Starting in 1994 at AIIMS New Delhi, India as of now has completed 1113 heart transplants, 101 heart lung transplants, 338 lung transplants, and implanted 124 left ventricular assist devices.