In this study, the authors evaluated survival after heart transplantation in adults with single and biventricular congenital heart disease against those receiving a transplant without congenital heart disease. It is a retrospective analysis over a fifteen-year period. The study found that among CHD transplant recipients, single-ventricle diseases correlated with higher short-term mortality.
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Survival After Cardiac Transplantation in Adults with Single-Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease
Submitted by: Jason Trevis
Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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Author(s): Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar, Sara Sakowitz, Konmal Ali, Nikhil L. Chervu, Arjun Verma, Ming-Sing Si, David D’Alessandro, and Peyman Benharash
