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Pathology of Pediatric Heart Transplantation

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Over the past 15 years, the number of pediatric heart transplantations reported has been approximately 10 % of total heart transplantations. Pediatric heart transplantation differs from adult in various senses, especially in terms of epidemiology, management, and outcomes. The chapter focuses on some of these differences: primary disease leading to heart failure and heart transplantation, sensitization in the pediatric population, ABO-incompatible transplantation, endomyocardial biopsy management and interpretation in the pediatric population, and cardiac allograft vasculopathy.

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  1. Department of Pathology, University Paris-Descartes, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France

    Jean-Paul Duong Van Huyen MD, PhD

  2. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France

    Franck Iserin MD

  3. Department of Pathology, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France

    Claire Toquet MD, PhD

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  2. Pathology of Cardiac Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine Unit Department of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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  4. Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program, Cardiology Unit, Sant’Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

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Van Huyen, JP.D., Iserin, F., Toquet, C. (2016). Pathology of Pediatric Heart Transplantation. In: Leone, O., Angelini, A., Bruneval, P., Potena, L. (eds) The Pathology of Cardiac Transplantation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46386-5_22

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