Current status of paediatric heart, lung, and heart-lung transplantation.
Since the first successful heart transplantation by Christian Barnard in 1967, there have been over 60 000 heart transplants performed worldwide. Around 350 paediatric heart transplants are now performed annually and approximately 10% of these are in the UK.
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Dept of Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. BurchM@gosh.nhs.uk
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D002648:Child; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D006084:Graft Rejection; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality / Q000639:trends; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality / Q000639:trends; D018579:Patient Selection; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D015996:Survival Rate; D017741:Survivors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement