Boston Children’s performs elective partial heart transplant
Boston Children’s performs elective partial heart transplant
Boston Children’s cardiac surgeons might have been the first to complete a partial heart transplant as an elective procedure.
Surgeons performed a partial heart transplant on a 4-year-old boy with aortic valve stenosis, according to an Aug. 1 system news release. The boy had already undergone two fetal cardiac interventions and a surgical valve repair in his first year of life, but still had residual aortic valve disease. The team decided he needed a new aortic valve and briefly considered the Ross procedure, a last-option treatment.
The team decided that a partial heart transplant could be the best option. The world’s first partial transplant was performed by Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Hospital in 2022, and few other heart centers have undertaken the procedure since. The Boston Children’s team established protocols for a partial heart transplant eight years ago, but had not yet found an ideal patient until this year, according to the release.
The team found a donor heart that had good working valves. They worked through the night and into the next day to remove the aortic valve from the donor heart and place it in the boy’s heart. Great news
This will solve many issues with valve surgery in children
Sizing, lack of growth, and anticoagulantion
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cardiology/boston-childrens-performs-elective-partial-heart-transplant.html
