Fifty Years of Pediatric Heart Transplantation - The First Successful Case and Results of the Early Era

The first pediatric heart transplant was undertaken Dec 6, 1967, just 3 days after the first adult transplant, 50 years ago. The baby died a few hours after transplant. The medical literature has not recorded the first successful transplant. The ISHLT registry began in 1982 however we discovered a group of patients, transplanted prior to 1982, had been entered retrospectively into the registry. The study aim was to report on these patients whose outcomes were unknown.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - March 31, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: C.R. Kirk, R.J. Butts, A.I. Dipchand Source Type: research