Competing outcomes after neonatal and infant wait-listing for heart transplantation.

Background: Neonatal and infant heart transplantation is a therapeutic option for patients with end-stage cardiac lesions, yet infants continue to face a considerable shortage of donor organs. We sought to ascertain outcomes after listing for heart transplantation using a competing outcomes methodology, and to identify factors predicting each outcome.

Methods: Review of the Toronto cardiac transplant database was undertaken to identify infant patients ( View Article and Find Full Text PDF