Neurologic Complications After Pediatric Heart Transplant: A Single-Center Experience

CONCLUSIONS: Neurologic complications may lead to serious mortality and morbidity in pediatric heart transplant patients. Seizures, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, stroke, peripheral neuropathy, transient ischemic attack, and cerebral infections are the most common neurologic complications, which are seen in the perioperative period in particular. Careful follow-up of pediatric heart transplant patients, with detection and early treatment of neurologic findings, will contribute to lower rates of sequelae. To our knowledge, this is the largest study to show a detailed experience of neurologic complications in pediatric heart transplant patients from a single center in Turkey.PMID:33797352 | DOI:10.6002/ect.2020.0349

Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - April 2, 2021 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Ali Orgun Ilkay Erdogan Birg ül Varan Taner Sezer N K ürsad Tokel Murat Özkan Atilla Sezgin Source Type: research