Abstract
Congenital heart disease affects 0.8% of all live-born infants. Some of the malformed hearts can at best be palliated by conventional surgical or catheter interventions from the start. Others fail slowly from chronic overloading. Patients with congenital heart disease have been among the first transplant recipients since 1967. Primary therapy with infant heart transplant is a convincing concept from an immunological perspective but large-scale implementation is limited by donor organ shortages. Another growing area is rescue therapy for older patients with end-stage heart failure after palliative procedures, particularly those with single-ventricle hearts, systemic right ventricles, and associated arrhythmias.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 603-608 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2011 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Surgery
- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Heart Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Cite this
Pauliks, L. B., & Ündar, A. (2011). Heart Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease. World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, 2(4), 603-608. https://doi.org/10.1177/2150135111410078