Pediatric Thoracic Organ Transplantation: Current Indications, Techniques, and Imaging Findings. 2016

Patricia T Chang, and Jamie Frost, and A Luana Stanescu, and Grace S Phillips, and Edward Y Lee
Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

In the past decade, with improved surgical technique and knowledge of immunosuppression, pediatric lung and heart transplantation have been established as viable therapeutic interventions for pediatric patients with end-stage cardiopulmonary disease from various underlying congenital and acquired disorders. Although outcomes for pediatric patients are similar to those for adult patients, thoracic organ transplantation in this special age group carries unique challenges for preoperative and postoperative imaging evaluation. The article provides an up-to-date review of the postoperative transplant anatomy, imaging techniques, and complications of pediatric lung and heart transplantation.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D011183 Postoperative Complications Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery. Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D003952 Diagnostic Imaging Any visual display of structural or functional patterns of organs or tissues for diagnostic evaluation. It includes measuring physiologic and metabolic responses to physical and chemical stimuli, as well as ultramicroscopy. Imaging, Diagnostic,Imaging, Medical,Medical Imaging
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012307 Risk Factors An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, inborn or inherited characteristic, which, based on epidemiological evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent. Health Correlates,Risk Factor Scores,Risk Scores,Social Risk Factors,Population at Risk,Populations at Risk,Correlates, Health,Factor, Risk,Factor, Social Risk,Factors, Social Risk,Risk Factor,Risk Factor Score,Risk Factor, Social,Risk Factors, Social,Risk Score,Score, Risk,Score, Risk Factor,Social Risk Factor
D016027 Heart Transplantation The transference of a heart from one human or animal to another. Cardiac Transplantation,Grafting, Heart,Transplantation, Cardiac,Transplantation, Heart,Cardiac Transplantations,Graftings, Heart,Heart Grafting,Heart Graftings,Heart Transplantations,Transplantations, Cardiac,Transplantations, Heart
D016040 Lung Transplantation The transference of either one or both of the lungs from one human or animal to another. Grafting, Lung,Transplantation, Lung,Graftings, Lung,Lung Grafting,Lung Graftings,Lung Transplantations,Transplantations, Lung

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