| Autor: |
Melanie D. Everitt |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Frontiers in Transplantation, Vol 2 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2813-2440 |
| DOI: |
10.3389/frtra.2023.1221166 |
| Popis: |
Heart transplant is performed annually in over 600 children worldwide to treat life-limiting cardiac disease. Conversations regarding waitlist mortality, post-transplant morbidity and mortality, and goals of care are commonplace pre-transplant. However, there is a void of information and resources for providers and families when end-stage disease recurs in the long-term transplant recipient. The purpose of this review is to discuss the care of the pediatric heart transplant recipient with chronic cardiac dysfunction occurring years after a successful transplant. This includes a need for transplant providers to have education and training related both to palliative care and medical ethics to improve shared decision making with patients and families. |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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