title: First pediatric heart transplantation from a pediatric donor heart in Japan.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Since the revision of the Japanese Organ Transplantation Act, children younger than 15 years old can donate their organs after brain death.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A teenage boy with endstage restrictive cardiomyopathy underwent the first heart transplantation with a pediatric donor heart in Japan on April 12, 2011. He had a good postoperative clinical course and no histological rejection episodes. His waiting period was relatively short (237 days) compared with adult patients, because of the pediatric patient-first policy for a pediatric donor heart.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To increase pediatric heart transplantation in Japan, further enlightenment of the general population about pediatric organ donation is desirable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan. uenotm@surg1.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Takayoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ueno
authors.forename: Norihide
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fukushima
authors.forename: Taichi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakaguchi
authors.forename: Haruki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ide
authors.forename: Hideto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ozawa
authors.forename: Shunsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Hajime
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ichikawa
authors.forename: Yoshiki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sawa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002313:Cardiomyopathy, Restrictive / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D033161:Government Regulation; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D014019:Tissue Donors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D016896:Treatment Outcome