Cardiac Transplant Program
The heart transplant program at SickKids began in 1990. Since 1996, SickKids has been performing 16-20 transplants every year, maintaining a cardiac centre that is one of the busiest in the world. The innovative approach of ABO-incompatible heart transplantation for infants, started at SickKids in 1996, has also vastly improved the problem of organ donor crisis for infants.
By the spring of 2004, a total of 148 transplants had been performed, in children from Canada, USA and Japan. Post-transplant care continues to be provided by a multi-disciplinary team of paediatric transplant cardiologists, transplant nursing specialists, social workers, dietitians, occupational and physical therapists, pharmacists, doctors of adolescent medicine and psychologists.
See the history section for more information.
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