Consensus statement on heart xenotransplantation in children: Toward clinical translation

Affiliations

• ¹ Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne Centre for Cardiovascular Genomics and Regenerative Medicine, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
• ³ Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.
• ⁴ Columbia University Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York, NY.
• ⁵ University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
• ⁶ Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, Loma Linda, Calif.
• ⁷ Department of Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Ala.
• ⁸ Immunology Research Centre, St. Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁹ Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
• ¹⁰ Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• ¹¹ Program in Cardiac Xenotransplantation, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
• ¹² Transregional Collaborative Research Center, Walter Brendel Centre of Experimental Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
• ¹³ United Therapeutics, Silver Spring, Md.
• ¹⁴ Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
• ¹⁵ Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation Program, Stollery Children's Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ¹⁶ Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation Program, Stollery Children's Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Alberta Transplant Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ¹⁷ Gene Center and Department of Veterinary Sciences, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.