Pediatric Heart Transplant
About Pediatric Heart Transplantation
The Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Heart Transplant program was established in 1988. Since then, the pediatric heart transplant team has performed more than 200 heart transplants on children from across the country and all around the world.
In the News
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta recently performed its
200th heart transplant, making Children's the only pediatric hospital in the Southeast to have reached this milestone.
Children's comprehensive approach to patient care through leading-edge research and medical advances allows for excellence in both pediatric heart transplantation and alternative therapies.
Because transplantation on children is a final course of treatment, the pediatric heart transplant team works closely with the Children’s cardiovascular surgical program and cardiology program. In 2008, Chidren's Sibley Heart Center evaluated nearly 1,400 patients in the cardiac catheterization lab and performed more than 9,500 cardiac procedures.
Transplant Facts
- One of only a few children’s hospitals nationwide to have pediatric heart surgeons perform multiple pediatric ABO-incompatible heart transplants
- The Children's Sibley Heart Center was named one the country’s top five pediatric cardiac programs by Parents magazine
- One of only a few pediatric healthcare centers nationwide to have surgeons perform more than 200 pediatric heart transplants*
* United Network for Organ Sharing
Cooperation and collaboration between the Children’s Heart Transplant team and the Emory University School of Medicine ensures that our patients receive the best possible treatment for heart failure due to congenital heart disease or cardiomyopathy. Our patients also benefit from the family-focused care only available at a dedicated pediatric hospital.
The Heart Transplant program is located at Children’s at Egleston, on the Emory University campus, in a safe, neighborhood close to lodging, restaurants and public transportation.