Emyal Alyaydin

4. Discussion To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the impact of DA on the outcome of HTx recipients in a relatively large patient cohort. Approximately one-third of the patients enrolled in our study were diagnosed with DA before HTx, which is more than previously reported [5]. One possible explanation for the increased prevalence of these disorders may relate to the modality of data acquisition. Both disorders were considered for our analyses as a composite entity.

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