Twenty-Year Experience With Heart Transplantation for Infants and Children With Restrictive Cardiomyopathy: 1986–2006
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Objective: To review the outcome of cardiac transplantation for restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) in children and to assess the ability of new strategies to modulate the effects of high pulmonary vascular resistance. Design: Retrospective case note analysis of all patients receiving a transplant for RCM. Patients: 18 children with RCM referred for transplantation assessment to Great Ormond Stree...
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BACKGROUND Restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is rare in children, and the prognosis is poor. In the present study, we evaluated all pediatric patients with RCM who were at our institution during a 31-year period to determine the clinical outcome and cause of death. Those who sustained sudden, unanticipated cardiac arrests were evaluated for risk factors that are predictive of sudden death. MET...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Transplantation
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1600-6135,1600-6143
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2007.02027.x