Pre-transplant Evaluation
All potential candidates undergo a comprehensive multi-disciplinary evaluation that includes:
| Pulmonary Function Testing |
Cardiac Evaluation |
- Spirometry
- Lung volumes
- DLCO
- Blood gases
- Maximal inspiratory and expiratory pressures
- Infant pulmonary function testing is performed for most children under 5
|
- EKG
- 2D echocardiogram
- cardiac catheterization (as needed to evaluate pulmonary vascular disease)
|
| Imaging |
Laboratory Evaluation |
- Chest x-rays
- High resolution chest CT
- V/Q scan (in selected cases)
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- Measures of renal and liver function
- Sputum culture
- Viral serologies (EBV, CMV, Varicella,herpes, Hepatitis, HIV)
|
| Other Studies |
- Nutritional evaluation
- Physical therapy evaluation (including 6 minute walk test)
- Psychosocial evaluation
|
Pre-transplant Evaluation
All potential candidates undergo a comprehensive multi-disciplinary evaluation that includes:
| Pulmonary Function Testing |
Cardiac Evaluation |
- Spirometry
- Lung volumes
- DLCO
- Blood gases
- Maximal inspiratory and expiratory pressures
- Infant pulmonary function testing is performed for most children under 5
|
- EKG
- 2D echocardiogram
- cardiac catheterization (as needed to evaluate pulmonary vascular disease)
|
| Imaging |
Laboratory Evaluation |
- Chest x-rays
- High resolution chest CT
- V/Q scan (in selected cases)
|
- Measures of renal and liver function
- Sputum culture
- Viral serologies (EBV, CMV, Varicella,herpes, Hepatitis, HIV)
|
| Other Studies |
- Nutritional evaluation
- Physical therapy evaluation (including 6 minute walk test)
- Psychosocial evaluation
|