Waiting List Mortality Among Children Listed for Heart Transplantation in the United States | Zendy

Christopher S. Almond | Zendy; Ravi R. Thiagarajan | Zendy; Gary Piercey | Zendy; Kimberlee Gauvreau | Zendy; Elizabeth D. Blume | Zendy; H. Bastardi | Zendy; Francis FynnThompson | Zendy; Tajinder P. Singh | Zendy

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Waiting List Mortality Among Children Listed for Heart Transplantation in the United States

Author(s) -

Christopher S. Almond,

Ravi R. Thiagarajan,

Gary Piercey,

Kimberlee Gauvreau,

Elizabeth D. Blume,

H. Bastardi,

Francis FynnThompson,

Tajinder P. Singh

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.108.815712

Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , hazard ratio , extracorporeal membrane oxygenation , transplantation , heart transplantation , cohort , confidence interval , pediatrics , emergency medicine

Children listed for heart transplantation face the highest waiting list mortality in solid-organ transplantation medicine. We examined waiting list mortality since the pediatric heart allocation system was revised in 1999 to determine whether the revised allocation system is prioritizing patients optimally and to identify specific high-risk populations that may benefit from emerging pediatric cardiac assist devices.

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