The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Thirty-third Adult Heart Transplantation Report—2016; Focus Theme: Primary Diagnostic Indications for Transplant

This section of the 19th Official Registry Report of 2016 summarizes data from pediatric lung transplant recipients and their donors for transplants that occurred through June 30, 2015. This report describes donor and recipient characteristics, transplant type and recipient outcomes data. The full Registry slide set available online (www.ishlt.org/ registries) provides more detail, additional analyses and other information not included in this printed report. This year’s report focuses on primary diagnostic indications for transplant. We present data on the distribution of diagnostic categories, demographics of patients with the different lung disorders leading to the need for transplant (Figure 1), associations of the diagnoses with outcomes, and other data of interest related to this topic. Data on heart-lung transplantation in children are not presented in this year’s report, as the number of pediatric heart–lung transplant procedures has remained very low. Only 11 pediatric heart–lung transplant procedures performed in 2014 were reported to the Registry. Data on pediatric heart–lung transplantation were presented in