[HTML][HTML] Current state of pediatric heart failure

BB Das - Children, 2018 - mdpi.com
Pediatric heart failure (HF) represents an important cause of morbidity and mortality in
childhood. There is an overlapping relationship of HF, congenital heart disease, and …

Pediatric cardiac waitlist mortality—Still too high

SW Denfield, E Azeka, B Das… - Pediatric …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiac transplantation for children with end‐stage cardiac disease with no other medical or
surgical options is now standard. The number of children in need of cardiac transplant …

Ventricular assist device support as a bridge to transplantation in pediatric patients

AI Dipchand, R Kirk, DC Naftel, E Pruitt… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
Background: Pediatric ventricular assist device (VAD) use has evolved dramatically over the
last 2 decades. Objectives: This study sought to describe the evolution of VAD support to …

Outcomes of children with congenital heart disease implanted with ventricular assist devices: an analysis of the Pediatric Interagency Registry for Mechanical …

DM Peng, DA Koehl, RS Cantor, KN McMillan… - The Journal of Heart and …, 2019 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND The reported ventricular assist device (VAD) experience in the pediatric
congenital heart disease (CHD) population is limited. We sought to describe contemporary …

Post-transplant outcomes in pediatric ventricular assist device patients: A PediMACS–Pediatric Heart Transplant Study linkage analysis

DL Sutcliffe, E Pruitt, RS Cantor, J Godown… - The Journal of Heart and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Pediatric ventricular assist device (VAD) support as bridge to transplant has
improved waitlist survival, but the effects of pre-implant status and VAD-related events on …

The influence of mechanical Circulatory support on post-transplant outcomes in pediatric patients: A multicenter study from the International Society for Heart and Lung …

JB Edelson, Y Huang, H Griffis, J Huang… - The Journal of Heart and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) is increasingly being used as a bridge to
transplant in pediatric patients. We compare outcomes in pediatric patients bridged to …

S3 guideline of extracorporeal circulation (ECLS/ECMO) for cardiocirculatory failure

U Boeken, A Assmann, A Beckmann… - The Thoracic and …, 2021 - thieme-connect.com
Im Kapitel ECLS (va-ECMO) wird voraussichtlich kein expliziter Hinweis erfolgen, da diese
Therapie in der LL Reg. Nr.: 001-021 nur marginal thematisiert ist und im dessen …

[HTML][HTML] Role of paediatric assist device in bridge to transplant

R Hetzer, MF del Maria Javier… - Annals of cardiothoracic …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background While heart transplantation has gained recognition as the gold standard
therapy for advanced heart failure, the scarcity of donor organs has become an important …

The number of refusals for donor organ quality does not impact heart transplant outcomes in children

R Rizwan, F Zafar, R Bryant III, JS Tweddell… - The Annals of Thoracic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Waitlist mortality is more than 12% for pediatric heart transplantation, with
strikingly high rates of organ refusal, many of which are due to donor quality. However, some …

Transplant outcomes for congenital heart disease patients bridged with a ventricular assist device

R Bryant III, R Rizwan, CR Villa, F Zafar, D Wells… - The Annals of Thoracic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Ventricular assist device (VAD) use as a bridge to transplant (BTT) for children
with end-stage heart failure and congenital heart disease (CHD), although challenging, has …