ISHLT Journal Watch: Pediatric Transplant and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
This month's ISHLT Journal Watch features recent topics in pediatrics related to heart and lung failure and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Issue editor Sowmith Rangu, MD, FRCPC, of the University of Texas at Austin Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, gathers topics from five contributors. You'll read about:
- Outcomes of early versus delayed ECMO in pediatric patients who were double-bridged
- The safety and efficacy of everolimus combined with low-dose tacrolimus after heart transplant in children
- A comparison of UK DCD and DBD heart transplant outcomes: Timing, techniques, feasibility, and outcomes
- A randomized clinical trial of Macitentan in pediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)
- Multicenter outcomes in durable VAD removal for myocardial functional recovery (MFR) in children
Issue Editor:
Sowmith Rangu, MD, FRCPCThe University of Texas at Austin
Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
Austin, TX USA
Contributors:
Apoorva Aiyengar, MBChB, BSc
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London, UK
Marivee Borges Rodriguez, MD
University of Texas at Austin Dell Children's Medical Center
Austin, TX USA
Dilveer Panesar, BMBCh, MD(Res)
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London, UK
David Youssef, BPharm, MBBS, FRACP
The Children’s Hospital Westmead
Sydney, NSW Australia
Emma Xi Li, MD
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Rochester, MN USA
Journal Watch Senior Editor
Ross Thomson, BA, BMBCh, MRCP