Obesity Leads to Increased Mortality in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients - A Pediatric Heart Transplant Society Study

This study is the first large scale study to evaluate the prevalence of obesity in pediatric HT recipients and its effects on cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) and graft survival.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - March 31, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: C. Bogle, R. Cantor, D. Koehl, J. Lochridge, J. Kirklin, A. Barnes, G. Wallis, S. Amdani, R. Ameduri, E. Pahl, K. Simpon, E.D. Blume Tags: (187) Source Type: research