Waitlist and post-transplant outcomes for children with myocarditis listed for heart transplantation over 3 decades.

Background: There is limited and conflicting information on waitlist and transplant outcomes for children with myocarditis.

Methods: Retrospective review included children with myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) listed for HT from January 01, 1993 to December 31, 2019 in the Pediatric Heart Transplant Society database. Clinical characteristics, waitlist and post-HT outcomes (graft loss, rejection, cardiac allograft vasculopathy, infection and malignancy) for children listed from early (1993-2008) and current era (2009-2019) with myocarditis were evaluated and compared to those with DCM.

Sex disparities in the current era of pediatric heart transplantation in the United States.

Background: While sex-related differences in transplant outcomes have been well characterized amongst adults, there are no sex-specific pediatric heart transplant studies over the last decade and none evaluating waitlist outcomes. In a contemporary cohort of children undergoing heart transplantation in the United States, this analysis was performed to determine if there were sex disparities in waitlist and/or post-transplant outcomes.

Methods: Retrospective review of Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients database from December 16, 2011 to February 28, 2019 to compare male and female children after listing and after transplant.