Study finds nighttime organ transplant surgery not associated with poorer survival after 1 year

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

An analysis of data on heart and lung transplant recipients indicates that patients who had transplant surgery performed at nighttime did not have a significantly different rate of survival up to one year after organ transplantation, according to a study in the June 1 issue of JAMA.

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