ReviewPediatric transplantation2020
The immune system in infants: Relevance to xenotransplantation.
Review in Pediatric transplantation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Incomplete Immune Tolerance in Pediatric ABO-Incompatible Liver Transplantation: Insights From Donor-Specific Antibody Titers.Annals of transplantation · 2025Article
- Pediatric partial heart xenotransplantation as an early use case of xenograft tissue.Future cardiology · 2025Review
- C1q Binding Ability for Prior Risk Assessment of Acute Antibody-Mediated Rejection in ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2024Article
- The potential of cardiac xenotransplantation for management of infants with complex congenital heart disease.Translational pediatrics · 2023Review
- Consensus statement on heart xenotransplantation in children: Toward clinical translation.The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2023Article
- Milestones on the path to clinical pig organ xenotransplantation.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2023Review
- A comparative study of human and porcine-derived decellularised nerve matrices.Biomaterials translational · 2023Article
- A high-dimensional cytometry atlas of peripheral blood over the human life span.Immunology and cell biology · 2022Article
- Will previous palliative surgery for congenital heart disease be detrimental to subsequent pig heart xenotransplantation?Transplant immunology · 2022Article
- Pig heart and lung xenotransplantation: Present status.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2022Article
- The potential of genetically engineered pig heart transplantation in infants with complex congenital heart disease.Pediatric transplantation · 2022Review
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Abstract
Despite the improvement in surgical interventions in the treatment of congenital heart disease, many life-threatening lesions (eg, hypoplastic left heart syndrome) ultimately require transplantation. However, there is a great limitation in the availability of deceased human cardiac donors of a suitable size. Hearts from genetically engineered pigs may provide an alternative source. The relatively immature immune system in infants (eg, absence of anti-carbohydrate antibodies, reduced complement activation, reduced innate immune cell activity) should minimize the risk of early antibody-mediated rejection of a pig graft. Additionally, recipient thymectomy, performed almost routinely as a preliminary to orthotopic heart transplantation in this age-group, impairs the T-cell response. Because of the increasing availability of genetically engineered pigs (eg, triple-knockout pigs that do not express any of the three known carbohydrate antigens against which humans have natural antibodies) and the ability to diagnose congenital heart disease during fetal life, cardiac xenotransplantation could be preplanned to be carried out soon after birth. Because of these several advantages, prolonged graft survival and even the induction of tolerance, for example, following donor-specific pig thymus transplantation, are more likely to be achieved in infants than in adults. In this review, we summarize the factors in the infant immune system that would be advantageous in the success of cardiac xenotransplantation in this age-group.
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