title: Successful pediatric orthotopic heart transplantation after three runs of mechanical circulatory support.
abstract: Mechanical circulatory support has become a well-established therapy to bridge patients with intractable heart failure to either heart transplantation or recovery. We report our experience of a child with a diagnosis of unexplained familial dilated cardiomyopathy, who presented with cyclical episodes of severe life-threatening heart failure treated with 3 different runs of MCS between August 2008 and May 2011.
authors.affiliation: Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Filippelli
authors.forename: Gianluigi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Perri
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kirk
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Griselli
authors.forename: Asif
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hasan
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006085:Graft Survival; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013997:Time Factors; D016042:Transplantation, Heterotopic / Q000379:methods; D017211:Treatment Failure; D016896:Treatment Outcome