The Registry Report of Heart Transplantation in Japan (1999–2014)

Nakatani, Takeshi; Fukushima, Norihide; Ōno, Minoru; Saiki, Yoshikatsu; Matsuda, Hikaru; Nunoda, Shinichi; Sawa, Yoshiki; Isobe, Mitsuaki

doi:10.1253/circj.cj-15-0975

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“…Thus, Japanese heart recipients appear to fare better than those in the ISHLT Registry, where the 10-year survival rate is shown to be about 60% among all pediatric recipients, while the survival rate varies by age at transplant among those aged less than 18 years of age [36, 37]. …”

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Current status of pediatric transplantation in Japan

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Brain-dead donor organ transplantation has been available to children in Japan since the 2010 revision of the Organ Transplant Law. Of the 50–60 brain-dead donor organ transplants performed annually in Japan, however, very few (0–4 per year) are performed in children. Again, while those receiving liver, heart, and kidney transplants are reported to fare better than their counterparts in the rest of the world, organ shortage is becoming a matter of great concern. Very few organs become available from brain-dead donors or are transplanted to adults if made available at all, with some children dying while on the brain-dead organ waiting list. Against this background, living-donor transplants, split-liver transplants, domino transplants, and hepatocyte transplants represent alternative modalities, each of which is shown to be associated with favorable outcomes. Challenges exist, include streamlining the existing framework for promoting organ donation for children and between children.

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confidence: 99%

Current status of pediatric transplantation in Japan

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“…In Japan, the Organ Transplant Law was enacted in October 1997 [12,20], and the first HTx in Japan was performed in February 1999 from a brain-dead donor in accordance with this law. From then until March 2013, 185 HTxs were performed in Japan, including 54 cases at our institute.…”

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Suppressive effects of conversion from mycophenolate mofetil to everolimus for the development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in maintenance of heart transplant recipients

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Nishimura

et al. 2016

International Journal of Cardiology

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“…1 The number of procedures increased steadily to around 10 per year, but then rose sharply to 44 in 2015 after a revision of the Act in July 2010. [1][2][3] However, the number of Htx procedures remains low in international terms and the mean waiting period exceeded 1,150 days at the end of June 2016 because of a rapid increase in newly registered patients on the waiting list. A bridge to transplantation (BTT) using a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) plays a greater role than before in managing the listed patients, and the total number of CF-LVAD implantation patients enrolled in the Japanese registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (J-MACS) increased to 656 at the end of June 2016.…”

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