Mortality and Morbidity in Pre-sensitized Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients With a Positive Donor Crossmatch Utilizing Peri-operative Plasmapheresis and Cytolytic Therapy

Heart transplantation in pre-sensitized pediatric recipients with a CDC-positive donor/recipient crossmatch may result in reasonable short-term survival, but with a high frequency of early rejection, often with hemodynamic compromise.