Waitlist mortality and recovery among pediatric heart transplant candidates in Germany: A nationwide registry analysis
Lisa-Maria Rosenthal, Annemarie Krauß, Felix Berger, Friederike Danne, Oliver Miera · 2026
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Lisa-Maria Rosenthal and colleagues analyze the heart transplant waitlist for children in Germany in a 2026 registry study. Most waitlist data come from North America, leaving European outcomes less clear.
The registry held 780 candidates listed between 2006 and 2020. Transplants reached 56.5 percent of children, while 17.9 percent died waiting and 7.8 percent recovered enough to leave the list. Mean waiting time was 197 days, longest for ages 1 to 10. Death risk ran highest in children under 2 with diagnoses other than dilated cardiomyopathy. Recovery clustered in infants under 1 year. Wider use of ABO-mismatched grafts is proposed.
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| CREATOR | Lisa-Maria Rosenthal, Annemarie Krauß, Felix Berger, Friederike Danne, Oliver Miera |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43524 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |