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
    • ,
  • Kimberlee Gauvreau, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • 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
    • ,
  • Leslie B. Smoot, MD

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

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