Heart Transplantation in Children with Turner Syndrome: Analysis of a Linked Dataset

• Published in: Pediatric cardiology Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 610 - 616
• Main Authors: Chew, Joshua D., Soslow, Jonathan H., Thurm, Cary, Hall, Matt, Dodd, Debra A., Feingold, Brian, Simmons, Jill, Godown, Justin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.03.2018; Springer
• Subjects: Adolescent; Analysis; Cardiac Surgery; Cardiology; Child; Child, Preschool; Children; Children's furniture; Congenital heart disease; Databases, Factual; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Health aspects; Heart; Heart Transplantation - mortality; Heart Transplantation - trends; Humans; Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome - complications; Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome - surgery; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Medical informatics; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Organ transplant recipients; Original Article; Palliative Care; Pediatrics; Registries; Retrospective Studies; Strategic planning (Business); Transplantation; Treatment Outcome; Turner syndrome; Turner Syndrome - complications; Vascular Surgery; Hypoplastic left heart syndrome; Heart transplant; Turner syndrome; Pediatric; Outcomes

Turner syndrome (TS) patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) have poor single ventricle palliation outcomes; therefore, consideration of other potential management strategies is important. Little is known about heart transplantation (HTx) in this group, as standard HTx databases do not...