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Thoracic Organ Transplantation in Children

The State of Heart, Heart-Lung, and Lung Transplantation

Department of Pediatrics Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio

Paul C. Stillwell, M.D.

Department of Pediatrics Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio

Heart, heart-lung, and lung transplantation have become accepted modalities for treatment in children with serious cardiopulmonary disease. Although early deaths secondary to infection and/or acute rejection have been reduced dramatically, there is still an early mortality related to cardiac complications and a late mortality related to rejection and infection. The management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome remains a special problem and is outlined in the review. There is much less experience in the newer modalities of heart-lung and lung transplantation in children and the results of these operative procedures are similar to what was seen in heart transplantation some 10 years ago. Ongoing and significant improvement continues, however, in all forms of transplantation dealing with the lung.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 32, No. 6, 322-328 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/000992289303200601


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