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Paediatric heart transplants--should we do them?
C T Hugo-Hamman1, S M Vosloo, M M De Moor
1Department of Paediatrics, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital.
Abstract:
Heart transplantation continues to evoke considerable controversy. While they are performed in adults, in South Africa children are at present denied this therapeutic option despite a very encouraging global/average 5-year survival rate of 62%. Objections to transplantation are usually based on moral and economic imperatives. These arguments will be analysed and we will present the case for the introduction of a transplant programme designed to benefit children with incurable heart disease.