Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26377718›Full record

ReviewCardiology in the young2015

Emerging science in paediatric heart transplantation: donor allocation, biomarkers, and the quest for evidence-based medicine.

Kevin P Daly

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Review in Cardiology in the young, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kevin P Daly1Department of Cardiology,Transplant Research Program,Boston Children's Hospital,Boston,Massachusetts,United States of America.
Harvard University · US

Funding

RESEARCH METHODS IN PEDIATRICS HEART DISEASET32HL007572 · NHLBI · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI Sarah D DE FERRANTI, Jane W. Newburger · 1985 to 2026
$13.0M
The Child Heath Research CenterK12HD052896 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Wendy K Chung · 2007 to 2026
$7.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS L40 HL110356NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007572NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL07572NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD052896NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD052896-06
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart transplantation offers excellent survival benefit to children with end-stage heart failure. With its success, the number of potential recipients continues to exceed the number of available donors. Developing strategies to safely increase donor utilisation is crucial to decreasing wait-list mortality. A new paediatric heart allocation policy is set to be implemented with the goal of prioritising the most urgent listed candidates. Owing to excellent outcomes of ABO-incompatible heart transplantation, the sickest infants will soon receive priority for heart offers irrespective of blood group. Allosensitisation poses unique challenges within the paediatric population; ongoing multi-centre studies are poised to refine our understanding of key risk factors and optimal treatment strategies. Biomarkers for acute cellular rejection, such as donor-specific cell-free DNA, and cardiac allograft vasculopathy, such as VEGF-A, may lead to a decreased need for invasive screening. Ultimately, well-designed and executed randomised control trials of post-transplant immunosuppression are required to improve long-term outcomes after paediatric heart transplantation.

Indexed as

BiomarkersEvidence-Based MedicineGraft RejectionHeart FailureHeart TransplantationHumansImmunosuppression TherapyPediatricsTissue DonorsVascular Endothelial Growth Factor ABiomarkersVascular Endothelial Growth Factor Aantibody-mediated rejectioncardiac allograft rejectiondiagnostic testsorgan allocation policyPaediatric heart transplantation

Identifiers

PMID26377718
PMCPMC7038909
OpenAlexW2277373182

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