Lung Transplantation for Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Long-term Outcome of Children with Newly Diagnosed Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Results From the Global TOPP-registry

Mark-Jan Ploegstra, David Dunbar Ivy, Maurice Beghetti, Damien Bonnet, Dursun Alehan, Laszlo Ablonczy, Sandra Mattos, David Bowers, Tilman Humpl, Rolf M. F. Berger,TOPP InvestigatorsMultiple InstitutionsMultiple Countries European Heart Journal of Quality of Care and Clinical OutcomesEur Heart J Qual Care Clin Outcomes 2023; DOI: 10.1093/ehjqcco/qcad020 AbstractBackground and aims: The Tracking Outcomes and Practice in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension […]

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A multicentric evaluation of pediatric lung transplantation in Italy

Marco Schiavon, Stafania Camgni, Federico Venuta, Lorenzo Rosso, Massimo Boffini, Francesco Parisi, Alessandro Bertani, Federica Meloni, Piero Paladini, Eleonora Faccioli, Michele Colledan, Daniele Diso, Margherita Cattaneo, Fabrizio Scalini, Sara Alfieri, Domenica Giunta, Monica Morosini, Luca Luzzi, Giulia Lorenzoni, Andrea Dell’Amore, Federico ReaUniversity Hospital of Padova. ASST Giovanni XXIII. University of Rome. University of Milan. University

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Lung transplantation with concomitant cardiac repair for congenital hypoplasia of bilateral pulmonary arteries and patent ductus arteriosus

Che‑Chih Cheng, Ming‑Tai Lin, Shu‑Chien Huang, Hsao‑Hsun HsuKaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital. National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine.Taiwan Journal of Cardiothoracic SurgeryJ Cardiothorac Surg 2022; 17: DOI: 10.1186/s13019-022-01792-z AbstractBackground: Profound pulmonary arterial hypertension with end-stage right heart failure is considered to be the main cause of death in children with un-repaired congenital

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Improved Outcomes of Infant Lung Transplantation Over 3 Decades

Horacio G. Carvajal, Taylor C. Merritt, Matthew W. Canter, Aaron M. Abarbanell, Dilip S. Nath, Pirooz EghtesadyWashington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. University of Texas Health San Antonio.United States Annals or Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 2022; 114: 184-192DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.04.032 AbstractBackground: Lung transplantation is the definitive surgical treatment for end-stage lung disease. However, infants

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Long-term outcomes of living-donor lobar lung transplantation

Seiichiro Sugimoto, Hiroshi Date, Kentaroh Miyoshi, Shinji Otani, Megumi Ishihara, Masaomi Yamane, Shinichi ToyookaOkayama University Hospital. Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine.Japan Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2022; 164: 440-448DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2021.08.090 AbstractObjective: Although living-donor lobar lung transplantation (LDLLT) enables an intermediate survival similar to cadaveric lung transplantation, the long-term outcome remains unknown. We

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Mortality after Lung Transplantation for Children Bridged with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Kyle Thompson, Steven J. Staffa, Viviane G. Nasr, Jill M. Zalieckas, Francis Fynn-Thompson, Debra Boyer, Ravi R. ThiagarajanBoston Children’s Hospital.United States Annals of the American Thoracic SocietyAnn Am Thorac Soc 2022; 19: 415-423DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202103-250OC AbstractRationale: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is increasingly used to bridge children who are wait-listed and failing conventional respiratory support for lung transplantation. Objectives: To compare

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Primary graft dysfunction grade 3 following pediatric lung transplantation is associated with chronic lung allograft dysfunction

Wai Wong, Brandy Johnson, Pi Chun Cheng, Maureen B. Josephson, Katsuhide Maeda, Robert A. Berg. Steven M. Kawut, Michael O. Harhay, Samuel B. Goldfarb, Nadir Yehya, Adam S. HimebauchHarvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Indiana University School of Medicine

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Indications and outcome after lung transplantation in children under 12 years of age: A 16-year single center experience

Paval Iablonskii, Julia Carlens, Carsten Mueller, Khalil Aburahma, Adelheid Niehaus, Dietmar Boethig, Maximilian Boethig, Katharina Floethmann, Wiebke Sommer, Joerg Optenhoefel, Igor Tudorache, Mark Greer, Harald Koeditz, Thomas Jack, Georg Hansmann, Christian Kuehn, Alexander Horke, Gesine Hansen, Axel Haverich, Gregor Warnecke, Murat Avsar, Jawad Salman, Dmitry Bobylev, Fabio Ius, Nicolaus SchwerkHannover Medical School. Saint Petersburg State

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Full recovery of right ventricular systolic function in children undergoing bilateral lung transplantation for severe PAH

Georg Hansmann, Franziska Diekmann, Philippe Chouvarine, Fabio Ius, Julia Carlens, Nicolaus Schwerk, Gregor Warnecke, Jens Vogel-Claussen, Dagmar Hohmann, Tim Alten, Thomas JackEuropean Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease Network. Hannover Medical School. University Hospital Heidelberg.Germany Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationJ Heart Lung Transplant 2022; 41: 187-198DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2021.10.014 AbstractBackground: We investigated whether RV function recovers in children with pulmonary

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Comparison of living-donor lobar lung transplantation and cadaveric lung transplantation for pulmonary hypertension

Hidenao Kayawake, Satona Tanaka, Yoshito Yamada, Shiro Baba, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Kazuhiro Yamazaki, Tadashi Ikeda, Kenji Minatoya, Yojiro Yutaka, Masatsugu Hamaji, Akihiro Ohsumi, Daisuke Nakajima, Hiroshi DateKyoto University. Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital.Japan European Journal of Cardiothoracic SurgeryEur J Cardiothorac Surg 2023; DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezad024 AbstractObjectives: Living-donor lobar lung transplantation (LDLLT) is a life-saving procedure for critically ill

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