Listing for Pediatric Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Transplantation Is Associated With Improved Waitlist Outcomes
Among candidates for pediatric heart transplant listed as status 1B/2, patients listed for DCD hearts in addition to DBD hearts have shorter waitlist duration, improved transplant rates, lower waitlist mortality rates, and comparable survival to patients listed for DBD hearts alone.
Authors
- J. William Gaynor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7955-5604)
- Katsuhide Maeda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3087-6316)
- Joseph William Rossano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8284-0673)
- Matthew J. O’Connor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3012-5464)
- Halil Beqaj (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7980-7549)
- Radhika Rastogi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1313-6620)
- Jonathan B. Edelson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3220-7922)
- Humera Ahmed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1572-4840)
- Nikia T. Toomey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1749-3983)
- Amit Iyengar
- Omar Toubat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3377-1384)
- Max Shin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2748-3052)
- Michael A. Catalano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8656-6352)
- Constantine Mavroudis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6773-7939)
- Benjamin Smood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8667-6591)
Institutions
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- California University of Pennsylvania (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the American Heart Association
- Published
- 2025-10-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1161/jaha.125.041633
- Primary Topic
- Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00