Ex vivo surgical cryoablation can be successfully utilized to treat Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in a donor heart prior to pediatric transplantation, potentially expanding the donor pool.
May expand usable donor pool for pediatric heart transplant; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
This report describes the use of a donor heart with ventricular pre-excitation for pediatric orthotopic heart transplantation and the successful surgical cryoablation of the donor heart prior to transplantation. The issues related to the preoperative evaluation and surgical management of the donor heart with Wolff-Parkinson White syndrome are discussed.
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