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UPMC Bridging the Great Health Divide: Pediatric Heart Transplant

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By WDTV News Staff

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) – Pediatric heart transplant is a highly specialized form of health care performed at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Jasmin Adous tells us more in this month’s Bridging the Great Health Divide sponsored by UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

The pediatric heart transplant program at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh was the second of it’s kind in the world. Surgeons have performed almost 400 pediatric and young adult heart transplants since 1982. Dr. Brian Feingold is the program’s Director of Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation. He says the program’s success it due to it’s people.
Read the full story from WDTV here.

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Short wait times, long-term survival in young children receiving lung transplant

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By Isabella Hornick

Children aged younger than 3 years receiving a lung transplant have different diagnoses, shorter wait times and comparable long-term survival to older patients, according to a study published inAnnals of the American Thoracic Society.

“Carefully selected infants and young children with end-stage lung and pulmonary vascular disease are appropriate candidates for lung transplantation and are likely underserved by current clinical practice,” Ernestina Melicoff, MD, assistant professor in the section of pediatric pulmonology at Baylor College of Medicine and medical director of the lung transplant program at Texas Children’s Hospital, and colleagues wrote. Read more in Healio.

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Transplant-Acquired Atopy and Allergy Found to be More Common in Pediatric Liver Transplants

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New research into risk factors for pediatric liver transplant patients indicated that atopy and allergy may follow a transplant and are more common among females and younger patients.

Pediatric liver transplant recipients were found to be more likely than adult recipients to acquire transplant-acquired atopy and allergy (TAA) with female gender also being correlated with higher rates according to new findings.1 Read more in HCP Live.

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University Health leads the nation in living donor kidney transplants for children

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University Health Transplant Institute marked an important annual milestone as it closed out 2022: it had performed more pediatric kidney transplants with organs from living donors than any other transplant program in the country.

The credit for much of that success goes to the Institute’s Champion for Life program, which helps patients needing organs reach potential donors. Patients identify a donor champion who supports them as they learn how to share their stories on social media and among networks of friends and relatives. Read more from University Health.

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Social Determinants of Health, Race Impact Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplants

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Social determinants of health independently impact post-heart transplant outcomes among Black children.

Social determinants of health (SDOH) independently impact post-heart transplant outcomes among Black children, but not White children, according to the results of a study presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2022, held from November 5th through 7th, in Chicago, Illinois. Read more from Infectious Disease Advisor.

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Pediatric heart transplant waiting times rose during pandemic, but mortality did not

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the waiting list times for pediatric heart transplants were longer than before the pandemic, but waiting list mortality did not change, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

The researchers compared 610 children (mean age, 6.93 years) who received a heart transplant during the pandemic period, defined as March 2020 to June 2021, with 626 children (mean age, 6.74 years) who received a heart transplant during the pre-pandemic period, defined as November 2018 to February 2020. Read the full story in Healio.

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Study reports improvement in pediatric liver transplant outcomes over past decades

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Study Rundown: Outcomes in pediatric liver transplantations have improved over the course of the last few decades. This study aimed to evaluate patient characteristics, indications for pediatric liver transplant, and outcomes in a larger cohort of approximately 14,500 patients who underwent pediatric liver transplant in Europe prior to 18 years of age. Read more in 2 minute medicine.

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World’s first partial heart transplant completed in newborn with truncus arteriosus

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Duke Health announced successful completion of the world’s first partial heart transplant, using living arteries and valves from a donor heart that were fused onto the existing heart of a newborn.

The patient, Owen Monroe from Leland, North Carolina, was born with truncus arteriosus — a condition in which the left and right main coronary arteries fused together — as well as atrial regurgitation in one valve. The combination made it unlikely the patient would survive until full heart transplant; therefore, living tissue from the donor heart of another infant, not suitable for full transplant but with strong valves, was used for the novel procedure.
Read the full story in Healio.

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