Basic Course in Pediatric Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation – Niakoro

Basic Course in Pediatric Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation

Basic Course in Pediatric Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation

Course Content

Total learning: 67 lessons / 6 quizzes Time: 8 hours

Indications of retransplantation and survival

Patients undergoing ReTx should have either chronic graft failure in the absence of active rejection, or severe CAV not amenable to medical or surgical therapy. Patients with CAV should have either symptoms attributable to CAV or moderate to severe left ventricular dysfunction. Additionally, patients with graft failure due to ongoing acute rejection, especially less than 6 months post-transplant, be ineligible for ReTx for the risk and low survival.

In retransplant cases the characteristics are distinct from those undergoing initial transplant, differs in immunosuppression treatments and patients are likely older with more medical co-morbidities. Survival rate is lower in retransplant cases compared for primary transplant.

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