Sarah Ulrich, Christian Balmer, Kolja Becker, Josefin Bruhs, Friederike Danne, Volker Debus, Leonie Dewein, Stefano Di-Bernardo, Ulrike Doll, Thilo Fleck, Theodor Tirilomis, Martin Glöckler, Maria Grafmann, Sabine Greil, Urte Grosser, Patrick Saur, Susanne Skrzypek, Michael Steinmetz
COVID-19 is a heterogenous infection-asymptomatic to fatal. While the course of pediatric COVID-19 infections is usually mild or even asymptomatic, individuals after adult heart transplantation are at high risk of a severe infection. We conducted a retrospective, multicenter survey of 16 pediatric heart transplant centers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to evaluate the risk of a severe COVID-19 infection after pediatric heart transplantation between 02/2020 and 06/2021. Twenty-six subjects (11 male) with a median age of 9...
March 2024: Clinical Transplantation