eComment. Paediatric cardiac transplantation - Better outcome, more challenges and novel alternatives

More and better donors for cardiac transplantation.

Cardiac transplantation is unrivalled as a treatment for end-stage heart failure. Nothing else offers the degree of improvement in both symptoms and survival. Whilst transplantation can never be the solution to the epidemic of advanced heart failure, for the fortunate few recipients it is very effective, and outcomes continue to improve. The inexorable decline in transplant activity is thus dou...

Paediatric cardiac anaesthesia: balancing risk and outcome.

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Challenges for paediatric transplantation in Africa.

Transplantation is the accepted mode of treatment for patients with end-stage organ disease affecting the heart, lungs, kidney, pancreas, liver and intestine. Long-term outcomes have significantly improved and the aim of management is no longer only long-term survival, but also focuses on quality of life especially in children. Transplantation in Africa faces a number of challenges including wi...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy: the more pacing sites, the better the outcome?

Challenges for Better thesis supervision

  Background: Conduction of thesis by the students is one of their major academic activities. Thesis quality and acquired experiences are highly dependent on the supervision. Our study is aimed at identifing the challenges in thesis supervision from both students and faculty members point of view.   Methods : This study was conducted using individual in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussi...