The Annals of thoracic surgery
Impact of Travel Burden and Access to Care on Survival After Pediatric Heart Transplantation in the Contemporary Regionalization Era.
Sara Sakowitz, Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar, Yas Sanaiha, Amulya Vadlakonda, Troy Coaston, Ming-Sing Si, Richard Shemin, Peyman Benharash
Published: 202510.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.10.018
Abstract
BACKGROUND: During the past decade, complex congenital operations, including heart transplantation (HT), have been increasingly regionalized to high-volume centers (HVCs). Whereas regionalization may increase travel burden and magnify disparities in…
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