Heart Transplantation in Congenital Heart Disease: In Whom to Consider and When?

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">(i) Primary heart transplantation (newborn HTx for HLHS or Ebstein’s anomaly)</td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left">(ii) Eisenmenger syndrome with simple CHD with left to right shunting (acyanotic)</td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left">(iii) Tetralogy of Fallot (repaired or palliated), and other complex CHD (cyanotic)</td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left">(iv) Univentricular heart with and without Fontan circulation</td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left">(v) Systemic right ventricle (CCTGA or TGA after atrial switch operation)</td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td>HTx: heart transplantation; HLHS: hypoplastic left heart syndrome; CHD: congenital heart disease; CCTGA: congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries; TGA: transposition of the great arteries.<br/></td></tr></table>

Main reasons for heart transplantation in congenital heart disease.

Journal of Transplantation

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Table 1: Heart Transplantation in Congenital Heart Disease: In Whom to Consider and When? 