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Pediatric cardiac waitlist mortality—Still too high
Author(s) -
Denfield Susan W.,
Azeka Estela,
Das Bibhuti,
GarciaGuereta Luis,
Irving Claire,
Kemna Mariska,
Reinhardt Zdenka,
Thul Josef,
Dipchand Anne I.,
Kirk Richard,
Davies Ryan R.,
Miera Oliver
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pediatric transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1399-3046
pISSN - 1397-3142
DOI - 10.1111/petr.13671
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , transplantation , disease , pediatrics , surgery
Abstract 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 continues to exceed the number of donors considered “acceptable.” Therefore, there is an urgent need to understand which recipients are in greatest need of transplant before becoming “too ill” and which “marginal” donors are acceptable in order to reduce waitlist mortality. This article reviewed primarily pediatric studies reported over the last 15 years on waitlist mortality around the world for the various subgroups of children awaiting heart transplant and discusses strategies to try to reduce the cardiac waitlist mortality.