title: Pediatric heart transplantation: demographics, outcomes, and anesthetic implications.
abstract: The evolving demographics, outcomes, and anesthetic management of pediatric heart transplant recipients are reviewed. As survival continues to improve, an increasing number of these patients will present to our operating rooms and sedation suites. It is therefore important that all anesthesiologists, not only those specialized in cardiac anesthesia, have a basic understanding of the physiologic changes in the transplanted heart and the anesthetic implications thereof.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. annette.schure@childrens.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Annette Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Schure
authors.forename: Barry D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Kussman
mesh_terms: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods*; D000777:Anesthetics / Q000009:adverse effects; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D000075202:Contraindications; D018729:Fontan Procedure; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000453:epidemiology; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality / Q000502:physiology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013534:Survival; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014850:Waiting Lists / Q000401:mortality
chemical_list: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System; D000777:Anesthetics