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A Review of Heart Transplantation in Children

M.P. Venkatesan, Associate Professor, Vinayaka Mission’s College of Nursing, Karaikal, Puducherry 609602 (U.T), India. , M.P. Venkatesan1 , R. Karthiga2

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International Journal of Pediatric Nursing 3(3):p 189-192, . | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijpen.2454.9126.3317.4
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A heart transplant is an operation to replace a diseased heart with a healthy one from another person. Treatment of patients suffering from end-stage heart failure (HF) leaves surgeons with limited options makes the indication of transplantation. According to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, approximately 350-500 pediatric heart transplantation procedures are performed worldwide each year, about 12% of the of the total number of heart transplants performed. An estimated 10% of congenital heart disease cases have been deemed uncorrectable. One of the most common indications for infant heart transplantation had been hypo plastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), which occurs in about one in 6000 live births. Congenital cardiomyopathy occurs in approximately one in 10,000 live births. Survival in excess of 20 years after pediatric heart transplantation has been achieved. Most programs now report that more than 70% of their recipients survive at least 5 Years.

Keywords: Heart Transplantation; Congenital cardiomyopathy; congenital heart disease; Hypo plastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). 

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