Background: This manuscript reviews all patients who underwent orthotopic heart transplantations (OHT) at our program (116 patients underwent 119 OHT) to describe their diagnostic characteristics and to assess risk factors for mortality.
Methods: Median age at OHT was 179 days (mean, 1,446.6 ± 188.
Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu
September 2005
Background: Elevated panel reactive antibody (PRA) may be considered a risk factor precluding pediatric orthotopic heart transplantation. We retrospectively reviewed our management strategy and outcome data for children undergoing heart transplantation with high PRA (> 10%).
Methods: Sixty consecutive children (median age = 130.
Among 183 neonates with interrupted aortic arch and ventricular septal defect entering a multiinstitutional study between 1987 and 1992, nine died before repair was accomplished. Among the remaining 174, survival at 1 month and 1, 3, and 4 years after repair was 73%, 65%, 63%, and 63%, respectively. The risk factors for death were low birth weight, younger age at repair, interrupted arch type B, outlet and trabecular ventricular septal defects, smaller size of the ventricular septal defect, and subaortic narrowing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBetween February 1986 and April 1992, 27 patients ranging in age from 8 to 65 years (median, 18 years) underwent allograft replacement of the aortic valve with one death (operative mortality, 3.7%). The indications for operation were aortic regurgitation in 14 patients, aortic stenosis in 7, aortic stenosis/regurgitation in 4, and endocarditis in 2.
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