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Ann Thorac Surg 1995;60:1663-1664
© 1995 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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See also page 1659.

DR BRACK G. HATTLER (Pittsburgh, PA): I congratulate Dr Fukushima and colleagues for this nice piece of work. I recognize them as pioneers in the area of neonatal heart transplantation.

After receiving a copy of their report I looked at our last 12 neonatal heart transplants to determine the relation between donor heart size, recipient size, and growth of the graft. In this much smaller cohort of patients my colleagues and I have been able to confirm what Dr Fukushima and his colleagues have so thoroughly presented today.

Certainly the severe shortage of neonatal organ donors has led to the frequent transplantation of oversized cardiac allografts. The mechanism that produces autoregulation of the donor heart, slowing down . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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