Who's speaking
- Lizzie Lee — host
Chapters
- 0:00Combined Heart-Liver Transplant Outcomes in Fontan Patients — Overview of a US study examining survival outcomes for pediatric and young adult Fontan patients undergoing combined heart-liver transplantation, with comparison to heart-only transplant recipients.
Key claims
- 0:11More Fontan patients are surviving into adolescence and adulthood — Lizzie Lee
- 0:11Liver disease is becoming a rising issue in Fontan patients — Lizzie Lee
- 0:11Combined heart-liver transplantation is happening more often in Fontan patients — Lizzie Lee
- 0:21The study examined children and young adults undergoing combined heart-liver transplant at hospitals across the US in the last few years — Lizzie Lee
- 0:28Many of the patients in the study had hypoplastic left heart syndrome — Lizzie Lee
- 0:36About 85% of patients survived at 1 year after combined heart-liver transplant — Lizzie Lee
- 0:36Long-term outcomes after combined heart-liver transplant were excellent — Lizzie Lee
- 0:41Three-year survival after combined heart-liver transplant was basically identical to patients who received heart transplant alone — Lizzie Lee
- 0:48Combined heart-liver transplant is effective for Fontan patients with advanced liver disease — Lizzie Lee
- 0:48Combined heart-liver transplant is increasingly common for Fontan patients with advanced liver disease — Lizzie Lee
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