Abstract
Since the first successful heart transplantation by Christian Barnard in 1967, there have been over 60 000 heart transplants performed worldwide. Around 350 paediatric heart transplants are now performed annually and approximately 10% of these are in the UK.
MeSH terms
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Child
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
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Graft Rejection
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Heart Transplantation* / methods
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Heart Transplantation* / mortality
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Heart Transplantation* / trends
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Heart-Lung Transplantation / methods
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Heart-Lung Transplantation / mortality
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Heart-Lung Transplantation / trends
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Humans
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Lung Transplantation* / methods
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Lung Transplantation* / mortality
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Lung Transplantation* / trends
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Patient Selection
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Prognosis
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Quality of Life
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Survival Rate
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Survivors
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Tissue and Organ Procurement