Current Controversies in Congenital Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support

Moderator(s)

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  Melita Viegas, MD

  Director, Pediatric MCS and ECMO, Assistant Professor
  UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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  Jeffrey Jacobs, MD, FACS, FACC, FCCP (he/him/his)

  Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
  University of Florida
  Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States

  I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests..

Presentations:

• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT

  Variables Affecting Survival in Pediatric Patients Supported with VADs: A Special Pediatric Interagency Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Support (Pedimacs) Report
  

  Awais Ashfaq, MD – Johns Hopkins All Childrens Hospital
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM PT

  Up to an Hour of Donor CPR Does Not Affect Pediatric Heart Transplantation Survival
  

  Kevin Kulshrestha, MD, MBE (he/him/his) – The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• 11:54 AM – 12:06 PM PT

  Combined Heart Liver Transplantation versus Isolated Heart Transplantation in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease
  

  Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar, MD, MBE – University of Colorado
• 12:06 PM – 12:20 PM PT

  Challenges and Current Solutions in Mechanical Circulatory Support in Small Children
  

  Eric R. Griffiths, MD – University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital
• 12:20 PM – 12:30 PM PT

  Discussion