The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Fourteenth Pediatric Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation Report—2011

Abstract

This Fourteenth Pediatric Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation Report covers the pediatric lung transplantation and heart-lung transplantation experience from January 1986 through June 2010. During this period, 1,664 pediatric lung transplant procedures and 653 pediatric heart-lung transplant procedures were reported to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Registry. It is important to note that recent figures include pediatric lung and heart-lung transplant procedures dating back to 1987 that were previously not reported to the ISHLT Registry but were retrospectively entered in 2010. In 2009, the last complete year included in this year’s ISHLT Registry report, 127 pediatric lung transplant procedures were reported, which is an increase of 43% compared with 2004. These figures, however, include only the pediatric lung transplant procedures that were reported to the ISHLT Registry and do not necessarily reflect the trend in numbers of pediatric lung procedures performed worldwide. This pediatric lung and heart-lung transplantation report includes a summary of the data analyses performed by the Registry this year and is supplemented by further analyses and additional figures that are available on the ISHLT Registry Web site (www.ishlt.org/registries). This report does not include detailed analyses and figures for pediatric heartlung transplantation because this information has been presented in previous reports and the number of pediatric