In addition to providing exceptional patient care and education, Texas Children's Heart Center is dedicated to research that will create more positive outcomes for patients living with heart disease.
Research
The pediatric heart transplant team physicians and researchers are involved in the following research projects:
Thoracic organ transplantation in the United States
Pediatric quality of life after ventricular assist device and transplant
Trends and outcomes in pediatric heart transplantation
Microstructural and cellular analyses of normal and congenitally diseased heart valves
Abdominal pain in pediatric heart transplant patients as a sign of graft vasculopathy
Noninvasive prediction of acute transplant rejection
Zenapax trial, used as induction therapy in cardiac transplantation
NIH sirolimus for coronary graft vasculopathy in children
Evaluation of BNP, or B-type natriuretic peptide, levels in the pediatric population – utility in children with status post-cardiac transplantation
