Children's Heart Assessment Tool for Transplantation (CHAT) Score: A Novel Risk Score Predicts Survival After Pediatric Heart Transplantation.

Charles D FraserJoshua C GrimmXun ZhouCecillia LuiKatherine GiulianoAlejandro Suarez-PierreTodd C CrawfordJ Trent MagruderNarutoshi HibinoLuca A Vricella

Published in: World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery (2019)

The Children's Heart Assessment Tool for Transplantation score represents a pediatric-specific, recipient-based system to predict one-year mortality after HTx. Its use could assist providers in identification of patients at highest risk of poor outcomes and may aid in pretransplant optimization of these children.

Keyphrases

young adults
heart failure
metabolic syndrome
adipose tissue
glycemic control