Clinical profiles and risk factors for early and medium-term mortality following heart transplantation in a pediatric population: A single-center experience

Conclusions: Excellent outcomes are possible after heart transplantation in a pediatric population even in a resource constrained environment of a developing economy. More efforts are needed to promote pediatric organ donation and patients need to be referred in better INTERMACS category for optimal outcomes.

Source: Annals of Pediatric Cardiology - January 16, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Komarakshi R Balakrishnan Kemundel Genny Suresh Rao Ganapathy Krishnan Subramaniam Murali Krishna Tanguturu Ajay Arvind Veena Ramanan Jagdish Dhushyanthan K Ramasubramanian K Suresh Kumaran Gunalan Sellamuthu Mohan Rajam Senthil Mettur Pradeep Gnansekhara Source Type: research