pediatric heart transplant

The challenge of rejection

Minimizing variation in how rejection is diagnosed and creating standardized surveillance protocols may help inform best practices in pediatric heart transplants.

Heart transplant patient Christian Cummins, left, with her mother, Tami Cummins.

Pediatric heart transplant program hits new milestone

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is one of the original pediatric heart transplant programs in the country, and after 30 years, the program continues to rank among the best.