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Listing Low-Weight or Ill Infants for Heart Transplantation: Is It Prudent?

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Submitted by

Emily Robinson

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.06.004

Author(s)

Raheel Rizwan, Farhan Zafar, Clifford Chin, James Tweddell, Roosevelt Bryant III, David Morales

This study addressed the question of utilization of limited resources, specifically whether ill or low weight infants should be listed for transplant based on survival. Among patients in the United Network for Organ Sharing database, very low weight was associated with worse one year survival, and being on ventilator or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support carried additional negative effects on survival.