Are We Turning Away Too Many Pediatric Donor Hearts?
Are We Turning Away Too Many Pediatric Donor Hearts? https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/themes/corpus/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Katie Brind'Amour, PhD, MS, CHES https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Katie-B-portrait.gifMore than half of all pediatric donor hearts are declined for use each year, despite the fact that many children die waiting for a heart. But why? And what can be done about it? As many as one in every four infants on the heart transplant list dies awaiting an organ. For older children,…
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