The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 1 , Pages 161-168 , July 2010

A United Network for Organ Sharing analysis of heart transplantation in adults with congenital heart disease: Outcomes and factors associated with mortality and retransplantation

Read at the Thirty-fifth Meeting of the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, Banff, Canada, June 24–27, 2009.

  • Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich
    • Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Ore
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc, Oregon Health Sciences University, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mail Code L353, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, OR 97239.
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  • Jennifer Hirsch, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich
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  • Karl Welke, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Ore
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  • Richard G. Ohye, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich
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  • Edward L. Bove, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich
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  • Eric J. Devaney, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich
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  • Robert J. Gajarski, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich

Received 23 June 2009 ,Revised 12 March 2010 ,Accepted 26 March 2010.

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 Disclosures: None.

PII: S0022-5223(10)00334-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.03.036

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 1 , Pages 161-168 , July 2010

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