Partial Heart Transplant in Congenital Cardiac Surgery

JAMA Surg. 2024 Sep 1;159(9):1085-1086. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.1567.

Authors

Taufiek Konrad Rajab¹, Andrew David Vogel^{1

2}, Joseph William Turek³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock.
² Division of Research, Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dothan.
³ Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

PMID: 39018045
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.1567

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Surgical Innovation outlines the advantages of performing a partial transplant to deliver growing heart valve implants in newborn babies.

MeSH terms

Female
Heart Defects, Congenital* / surgery
Heart Transplantation*
Humans
Male