Background: This study describes the illness burden in the first year of life for children with single-ventricle heart disease, using the metric of days alive and out of hospital to characterize morbidity and mortality.
Methods: This is a...
Background & Hypothesis: Demand for pediatric heart transplants exceeds the supply of available organs, resulting in an average waiting time of six months and significant waitlist mortality. The use of donor hearts after circulatory death...