Qualifications for being on heart transplant list

-Major systemic disease

-Age inappropriateness (70 years of age)

-Cancer in the last 5 years except localized skin (not melanoma) or stage I breast or prostate

-Active smoker (less than 6 months since quitting)

-Active substance abuse

-HIV

-Severe local or systemic infection

-Severe neurological deficits

-Major psychiatric illness or active substance abuse that cannot be managed sufficiently to allow post-transplant care and safety