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SUBMITTER: Singh TP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4243846 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Singh T P TP Almond C S CS Piercey G G Gauvreau K K
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20110830 12
We sought to evaluate trends in overall and race-specific pediatric heart transplant (HT) wait-list mortality in the United States (US) during the last 20 years. We identified all children <18 years old listed for primary HT in the US during 1989-2009 (N = 8096, 62% White, 19% Black, 13% Hispanic and 6% Other) using the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network database. Wait-list mortality was assessed in four successive eras (1989-1994, 1995-1999, 2000-2004 and 2005-2009). Overall wait-list mor ...[more]