Cardiac Transplantation

Children experience psychological difficulties 2 years after heart transplant

Published in Blood Weekly, May 19th, 2005

A recent report describes changes in cognitive function and behavior beyond the first year after pediatric heart or heart-lung transplantation.

According to research from England, "With the increasing use and improved survival rates of heart and lung transplantation as treatments for children with end-stage heart or lung disease, attention is focusing on the longer term psychological implications of these procedures. [Our] paper focuses on the changes in cognitive development and behavior in a group of 47 children who were seen 12 months and 2 years after transplantation."

J. Wray and R. Radley-Smith of Harefield Hospital explained, "There were 24...

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