Cochrane, Maria Crespo Leiro, Anne Dipchand, Brian Feingold, Kathleen Grady, Edward
Horn, Maryl Johnson, Donna Mancini, Sean Pinney, Heather Ross, Kari Wujcik, Andreas …

Background The treatment of babies with unrepairable heart valve dysfunction remains an
unsolved problem because there are no growing heart valve implants. However, orthotopic …

Background: Varying single center data exist regarding the posttransplant outcomes of
patients with single ventricle circulation, particularly following the Fontan operation. We …

Background ABO-incompatible heart transplantation increases donor availability in young
children and is evolving into standard of care in children younger than 2 years. Previous …

Background We assessed the impact of the liberalized ABO pediatric policy change on
candidate characteristics and outcomes for children undergoing heart transplant (HT) …

The year 2020 saw some important publications in the field of pediatric heart transplantation
(PHT). Several focused on increasing donor utilization and expanding the donor pool. We …

Heart transplantation has become the standard of care for pediatric patients with end‐stage
heart disease throughout the world. Since the first transplant was performed in 1967, the …

The availability of thoracic organ transplantation as the treatment of choice for end-stage
cardiac or pulmonary diseases is limited by the insufficient number of donor organs from …

Pediatric heart transplantation has additional and unique aspects from standard pediatric
heart surgery and adult heart transplantation. The purpose of this article is to review …

Background ABO‐incompatible heart transplantation (HTx) has become a standard
procedure for children below 2 years of age due to an immunologically immature immune …