Patient Selection Criteria

The patient selection criteria is based upon both a critical medical need for transplantation and a maximum likelihood of a successful clinical outcome. To be considered for transplantation, a patient must have a poor health prognosis, but must have no other end stage organ failure.

Transplantation is provided as an option only after all other medical and surgical therapies that might be expected to yield both short and long-term survival, have been considered or exhausted.

Moreover, both a complete physical and psycho-social evaluation is conducted to ascertain the patient and caregiver’s ability for long-term adherence to a disciplined medical regimen, which is feasible and realistic for the individual patient.

Cardiac Transplant

The criteria for selecting cardiac transplant candidates includes the following:

1. Infants, children and adolescents with cardiomyopathy unresponsive to medical therapy:

• Viral
• Ischemic
• Familial
• Idiopathic
• Metabolic
• Hypertrophic
• Drug induced

2. Infants, children and adolescents with severe congenital cardiac malformation (palliated or unoperated), with a failing myocardium.

3. Graft failure following previous transplantation.