Special considerations for heart transplantation in congenital heart disease. The Paediatric Heart Transplant Group.

Congenital heart disease as an indication for heart transplantation accounts for a small number of the total heart transplant experience--less than 3% in most centers. We have performed heart transplantation in eight such patients, accounting for 4% of our total experience. All these patients had specific anatomic anomalies relevant to transplantation. None had morbidity directly related to their anatomic defect and subsequent transplant. Six …