Ram E, et al. - Researchers quantified the influence of the mode of donor brain death (BD) on heart transplantation (HTx) outcomes in this analysis of all patients who underwent HTx between 1996 and 2017. The participants were classified based on donor’s BD mechanism: traumatic BD (TBD) vs non-traumatic BD (NTBD). In the TBD group and in the NTBD group, 105 and 85 recipients were included, respectively. A significantly higher overall survival was reported for recipients of TBD hearts, in Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. Findings revealed a significant influence of mode of brain death on HTx outcomes. Reduced death, rejections and cardiac allograft vasculopathy were reported in relation to TBD.