Characterizing neurodevelopmental follow-up attendance of children with congenital heart disease.

Background: Characterize attendance at neurodevelopmental follow-up for congenital heart disease (CHD) from infancy to young adulthood, as well as identify individual, family, and neighborhood-level correlates of low attendance.

Methods: Primary caregivers (N = 578) of children with CHD aged 0-21 years in the United States, stratified into six age groups, reported whether their child had attended neurodevelopmental follow-up at various time points. Caregiver reports were also used to collect information on the child's clinical and family psychosocial characteristics.

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric heart transplant outcomes in the era of anti-thymocyte globulin induction.

Background: Black race is associated with worse outcomes across solid organ transplantation. Augmenting immunosuppression through antithymocyte globulin (ATG) induction may mitigate organ rejection and graft loss. We investigated whether racial and socioeconomic outcome disparities persist in children receiving ATG induction.

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy and graft failure in pediatric heart transplant recipients after rejection with severe hemodynamic compromise.

Background: Rejection with severe hemodynamic compromise (RSHC) carries a mortality risk approaching 50%. We aimed to identify current risk factors for RSHC and predictors of graft failure after RSHC.

Methods: Data from 3,259 heart transplant (HT) recipients between January 2005 and December 2015 in the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study (PHTS) were analyzed.

Hearts transplanted after circulatory death in children: Analysis of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation registry.

We aimed to describe worldwide DCD HT experience in children using the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Registry. The Registry was queried for primary HT performed in children (2005-2014). Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to assess survival for recipients grouped by DCD or DBD hearts.