Heart Transplant Program Highlights and Milestones
- Program inception – December 1990.
- Availability of extracorporal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and state of the art pulsatile mechanical support.
- Linked to one of the top ten pediatric heart programs in the nation, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin's Herma Heart Center.
- Recent actuarial survival analysis demonstrates excellent results with most patients having no limitations to normal childhood activities.
- Youngest patient – 7 days old. Longest survivor 13 years old and thriving.
- Pioneered the systematic use of the virtual crossmatch for sensitized pediatric heart transplant recipients.
- In 2006, The Pediatric Heart Failure program was developed to promote early recognition and optimize care of children with advanced heart failure who may need transplantation services.
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