Heart Failure and Transplant Heart Transplant Program Our program has performed more than 200 pediatric heart transplants since the transplant program began in 1984, consistently reporting low organ rejection rates and high patient survival rates that rank among the world’s best. Our dedicated, multidisciplinary team of pediatric cardiac transplant surgeons, heart failure and transplant cardiologists, nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists and social workers provides coordinated and comprehensive evaluation, treatment and follow-up management, including a full spectrum of support services to children and their families. The full multidisciplinary team meets and reviews pre- and post-transplant patients weekly to assure the best and most comprehensive care is provided to each individual patient. We participate in multiple organ transplant listings and have experience performing combination transplants such as heart/kidney or heart/liver.
As a part of treatment for advanced heart failure, our center employs a comprehensive ventricular assist device program with experience in multiple devices appropriate for pediatric patients. We also offer comprehensive pulmonary hypertension and cardio-oncology services.
Research and Quality Improvement Our innovative research endeavors give patients access to the newest treatments available. Our heart failure/transplant team is actively involved in multiple projects, including assessment of modifiable transplant risk factors, quality of life in pediatric heart failure patients, single ventricle transplant risk factors and outcomes, and novel therapies pre- and post-transplant. Each project is ultimately aimed to improve care in this complex patient population.
2015 TRANSPLANT VOLUME
8
TRANSPLANT OUTCOMES
97%
1-YEAR SURVIVAL 29/30 PATIENTS TRANSPLANTED OVER THE PAST 3 YEARS
OVERALL NUMBER OF PEDIATRIC TRANSPLANT PATIENTS CURRENTLY FOLLOWED
80
NUMBER OF VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES PLACED IN 2015
5
Heart Failure Services Our team provides comprehensive care for children with advanced heart failure. We have extensive experience evaluating and treating children with heart failure resulting from cardiomyopathy and palliated congenital heart disease, including patients who have undergone the Fontan operation.
TOTAL NUMBER OF PEDIATRIC HEART FAILURE/TRANSPLANT CLINIC VISITS IN 2015
334
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