Utilization of organs to pediatric heart transplant recipients

While survival after pediatric heart transplantation (pHT) has improved in the past few decades and mechanical circulatory support is increasingly used to bridge children to transplantation, waiting list deaths remain a stark reality. To increase the donor pool, strategies such as ABO-incompatible transplantation or donation after cardiac death (DCD) have been attempted.1,2 The real question we have to ask is whether the current donor pool offers are appropriately being used. The article by Davies and colleagues in this issue of the journal looked at the rate of declines in donor offers for pediatric recipients and their consequences.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research