Organ transplantation as an option to overcome end-stage diseases is common in countries
with advanced healthcare systems and is increasingly provided in emerging and developing …

Pediatric heart transplantation is performed throughout the world and the numbers of
transplantations have grown dramatically since the first transplant was performed in 1967 …

In 2005, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Board of
Directors commissioned the development of the first International Listing Criteria for Heart …

Pediatric heart failure represents an important cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood.
Currently, there are well-established guidelines for the management of heart failure in the …

Rationale: Patients with single ventricle physiology are at high risk of mortality resulting from
ventricular dysfunction. The preliminary results of the phase 1 trial showed that cardiosphere …

Background Continuous-flow (CF) ventricular assist devices (VADs) have largely replaced
pulsatile-flow VADs in adult patients. However, there are few data on CF VADs among …

The registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: seventeenth
official pediatric heart transplantation report--2014; focus theme: retransplantation The registry …

Ross et al Transplantation in Congenital Heart Disease 803 listed ACHD patients are more
likely to experience cardiovascular death (including sudden death and death caused by HF) …

Myocarditis is defined as an inflammatory myocardial disease diagnosed by a combination
of histologic, immunologic, and immunohistochemical criteria. 1 More simply, it is known as …

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a leading cause of heart failure. In families with autosomal-
dominant DCM, heterozygous missense mutations were identified in RNA-binding motif …