Acute kidney injury (AKI) is very common in pediatric medical and surgical cardiac patients. Not only is it an independent risk factor for increased morbidity and mortality in the short run, but repeated episodes of AKI lead to chronic kidney disease (CKD) especially in the most vulnerable hosts with multiple risk factors, such as heart transplant recipients. The cardiorenal syndrome, a term co...

PurposeCardiac re-transplantation (reTX) in pediatrics remains a rare occurrence, representing only 2% of all pediatric heart transplants (HT). The purpose this study was to describe the pre-transplant characteristics, waitlist outcomes and post-HT for reTX at our center.MethodsRetrospective review patients listed transplantation (HT) from 1/1/2014-10/18/2021. Pre-transplant characteristics pos...

Over the past decade, significant policy changes have been made to the national organ allocation system, which is managed by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) under federal contract by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). Some of these changes may have contributed directly to the decreased pediatric waitlist mortality noted in this month’s article entitled “Pediat...

conclusions expressive emotion brief psychotherapy that focuses on the instructions of expression about one’s living and dealing with a diagnosis of chronic medical condition is recommended for kidney transplant recipients. results baseline demographic characters of patients in both groups were similar. the mean age of patients that participated in the study were respectively 39.26 ± 12.98 and ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The knowledge of renal function is crucial for the management of pediatric kidney transplant recipients. In this population, the most commonly used plasma creatinine (PCr)-based or cystatin C (CystC)-based GFR-predicting formulas may underperform (e.g., corticosteroids and trimethoprim may affect PCr concentration, whereas prednisone and calcineurin inhibitors may affec...