Waiting List Mortality Among Children Listed for Heart Transplantation in the United States
Waiting List Mortality Among Children Listed for Heart Transplantation in the United States
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DOI：
10.1161/circulationaha.108.815712
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发表时间：
2009-02-10
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影响因子：
37.8
通讯作者：
Singh, T. P.
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作者：
Almond, Christopher S. D.;Thiagarajan, Ravi R.;Singh, T. P.
在实体器官移植医学中，等待心脏移植的儿童面临着最高的死亡率。我们研究了等待名单死亡率，因为儿科心脏分配系统于1999年修订，以确定是否修订后的分配系统是优先考虑患者的最佳和确定特定的高风险人群，可能会受益于新兴的儿科心脏辅助devices.Methods和结果，我们进行了多中心队列研究，使用美国科学登记处的移植受体。所有儿童
Background-Children listed for heart transplantation face the highest waiting list mortality in solid-organ transplantation medicine. We examined waiting list mortality since the pediatric heart allocation system was revised in 1999 to determine whether the revised allocation system is prioritizing patients optimally and to identify specific high-risk populations that may benefit from emerging pediatric cardiac assist devices.Methods and Results-We conducted a multicenter cohort study using the US Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. All children