Growth and pubertal development following pediatric heart transplantation: a 15-year experience at Ste-Justine Hospital

• Published in: The Journal of heart and lung transplantation Vol. 19; no. 9; pp. 825 - 833
• Main Authors: de Broux, Éric, Huot, Céline H, Chartrand, Suzanne, Vobecky, Suzanne, Chartrand, Claude
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.09.2000; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adolescent; Biological and medical sciences; Body Height; Body Weight; Cardiomyopathies - surgery; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Heart Failure - surgery; Heart Transplantation; Humans; Infant; Male; Medical sciences; Postoperative Period; Prospective Studies; Puberty - physiology; Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases; Surgery of the heart; Transplantation, Homologous; Human; Heart; Puberty; Prognosis; Treatment; Growth; Follow up study; Surgery; Transplantation; Homotransplantation; Child

Background: Thirty-one children and adolescents have undergone allograft heart transplantation at Ste-Justine Hospital from July 1984 to August 1996. Twenty-five patients were followed prospectively more than 3 years to document their growth and pubertal development. Parameters surveyed were clinica...