Racial and Ethnic Disparities After Stroke in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients

Black pediatric cardiac transplant recipients experience perioperative stroke less frequently than White pediatric cardiac transplant recipients. Mortality among the survivors of perioperative stroke is initially similar, but after 6 months these Black children experience more than 3 times the mortality rate of the White children. These are among the study findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Researchers sought to evaluate racial and ethnic differences in occurrence of stroke following cardiac transplant and all-cause mortality after perioperative stroke in pediatric cardiac transplant recipients.  Read the full story in CardiologyAdvisor.