Series Editor
James K. Kirklin, MD
Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Director, Kirklin Institute for Research in Surgical Outcomes (KIRSO), Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Editors
Charles Canter, MD
Lois B Tuttle and Jeanne B Hauck Professor of Pediatrics Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Melanie D. Everitt, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Colorado Director of Heart Transplantation, Children’s Hospital Colorado Denver, Colorado, USA
Michael Burch, MD
Professor of Paediatric Cardiology, University College London & Head of Department of Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.
James D. St. Louis, MD
Joseph Boon Gregg/Missouri Endowed Chair of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Surgical Director, Cardiac Transplantation, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Contributors
Dimpna C. Albert, MD, PhD
Pediatric Cardiologist, Medical Director of Pediatric Heart Transplantation, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Nicholas Avdimiretz, MD
Fellow Pediatric Lung Transplantation, Division of Pediatric Respirology, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Estela Azeka, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiology at Heart Institute (InCor) University of São Paulo Medical School, Clinical Chief of Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation Program in Children and Adults with Congenital Heart Disease at Heart Institute (InCor) University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
Daniel Bernstein, MD
Associate Dean for Curriculum and Student Scholarship, Alfred Woodley Salter and Mable G. Salter Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Swati Choudhry, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Kevin P. Daly, MD
Transplant Research Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Susan W. Denfield MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Anne I. Dipchand, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Head, Heart Transplant Program Staff Cardiologist, Heart Function and Echocardiography, Labatt Family Heart Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fabienne Dobbels, MSc, PhD
Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
William J. Dreyer, MD
Medical Director, Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy and Cardiac Transplantatoin, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Brian Feingold, MD, MS
Medical Director Heart Failure and Transplantation Programs, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Matthew Fenton MB BS, BSc
Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Lakshmi R. Gokanapudy, MD
Fellow, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Giorgia Grutter MD
Pediatric Cardiologist, Bambino Gesù Children`s Hospital, IRCSS, Rome, Italy
Claire A Irving. MBChB, MRCPCH (UK), FRACP (Aus), MD
Paediatric Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Westmead, Sydney, Australia
Jessica A. Laks, MD
Fellow Pediatric Heart Transplantation, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Angela Lorts, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Eden M. Maloney
PhD Candidate, Department of Surgery/Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Massimo Mangiola, PhD, D(ABHI)
Assitant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Olivia M. Martinez, PhD
Professor, Department of Surgery
Director, Stanford Immunology and Director, PhD Program in Immunology Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Susana Melendo, MD
Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
David C. Naftel, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Matthew J. O’Connor, MD
The Cardiac Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Elfriede Pahl, MD, FACC, FAHA
Medical Director, Heart Transplant/Heart Failure, M.E. Wodikia Research Professor, Codirector Research and Academic Affairs Heart Center, Ann and Robert H Lurie Chidren’s Hospital, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago Illinois, USA
Francesco Parisi MD
Medical Director of Thoracic Transplantation and Pulmonary Hypertension Unit, Bambino Gesù Children`s Hospital, IRCSS, Rome, Italy
David M. Peng, MD
University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Mark D. Plunkett, MD
Chief, Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois, USA
Joseph W. Rossano, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Stephan Schubert, MD
Professor and Head of Pediatric Transplantation and Interventional Therapy Department of Congenital Heart Disease/Pediatric Cardiology German Heart Center, Berlin, Germany
Kurt R. Schumacher, MD, MS
University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Jacob Simmonds, MD (Res), MA (Hons) (Cantab), MB BChir
Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Kathleen E. Simpson, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
James D. St Louis, MD
Joseph Boon/Gregg/Missouri Endowed Chair of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Surgical Director, Cardiac Transplanation, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Matteo Trezzi, MD
Cardiac Surgeon, Bambino Gesù Children`s Hospital, IRCSS, Rome, Italy
Simon Urschel, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Microbiology and Immunology Section Chief Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation, Stollery Children’s Hospital University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Chet R. Villa, MD
Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Kenneth Weinberg, MD
Anne T and Robert M Bass Professor of Pediatric Cancer and...