Impact of Congenital Heart Disease Versus Acquired Heart Disease: An Analysis of 181 Patients who Underwent Cardiac Transplantation

Mark Steven Bleiweis, Frederick J. Fricker, Dipankar Gupta, John-Anthony Coppola, Giles J. Peek, Yuriy Stukov, Omar M. Sharaf, Matthew S. Purlee, Colton D. Brown, Liam R. Kugler, Dan Neal, Jeffrey Phillip Jacobs, Congenital Heart Center, University of Florida

World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery

Published online on November 26, 2025

Abstract

World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 343-351, May 2026.
PurposeWe reviewed all 181 patients with pediatric and/or congenital heart disease (CHD) who underwent cardiac transplantation at the University of Florida from January 1, 2011, to March 1, 2022, and compared those with CHD with those who had acquired ...