The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume 29, Issue 11 , Pages 1226-1230 , November 2010

Outcomes of heart transplantation using donor hearts from infants with sudden infant death syndrome

  • Jennifer N.A. Silva, MD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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  • Charles E. Canter, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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  • Tajinder P. Singh, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Kimberlee Gauvreau, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Gary E. Piercey, BS

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Charles I. Berul, MD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Currently at Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC
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  • Leslie B. Smoot, MD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Elizabeth D. Blume, MD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Francis Fynn-Thompson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Christopher S. Almond, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Christopher S. Almond, MD, MPH, Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115. Telephone: 617-355-6329. Fax: 617-734-9930

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    Proportion of transplanted infant donor hearts where the cause of death was sudden infant death syndrome.

    Proportion of transplanted infant donor hearts where the cause of death was sudden infant death syndrome.

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    Unadjusted Kaplan-Meier survival of outcomes comparing sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and non-SIDS heart transplant recipients.

    Unadjusted Kaplan-Meier survival of outcomes comparing sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and non-SIDS heart transplant recipients.

PII: S1053-2498(10)00365-7

doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2010.06.004

The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume 29, Issue 11 , Pages 1226-1230 , November 2010

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