Ventricular Assist Device Support as a Bridge to Transplantation in Pediatric Patients

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 402 - 415
• Main Authors: Dipchand, Anne I., Kirk, Richard, Naftel, David C., Pruitt, Elizabeth, Blume, Elizabeth D., Morrow, Robert, Rosenthal, David, Auerbach, Scott, Richmond, Marc E., Kirklin, James K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 24.07.2018; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Age; Cardiology; Cardiomyopathy; Cardiovascular; Children; Coronary artery disease; Data collection; Demographics; durable; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Heart diseases; Heart failure; Heart transplantation; Neonates; outcomes; Oxygenation; Patients; Pediatrics; Survival; Transplants & implants; Ventilators; Ventricle; United Kingdom > UK; North America; ECMO; heart failure; BiVAD; RVAD; MCSD; survival; LVAD; durable; outcomes; VAD; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; UNOS; PediMACS; Pediatric Interagency Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Support; right ventricular assist device; United Network for Organ Sharing; biventricular VAD; mechanical circulatory support device; ventricular assist device; left ventricular assist device

Pediatric ventricular assist device (VAD) use has evolved dramatically over the last 2 decades. This study sought to describe the evolution of VAD support to heart transplantation (HTx) in children in a large international multicenter cohort. Using data from the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study, com...