Should a Down Syndrome Child With a Failing Heart Be Offered Heart Transplantation?

Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Oct;104(4):1111-1116. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.06.041.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Clinical Decision-Making / ethics*
  • Disease Progression
  • Down Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Down Syndrome / surgery*
  • Female
  • Heart Failure / physiopathology
  • Heart Failure / surgery*
  • Heart Transplantation / ethics*
  • Heart-Assist Devices
  • Humans
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / physiopathology
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / surgery*
  • Risk Assessment
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / surgery*