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Melanie D Everitt

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Tanverdi M, Lubell T, Everitt M, Combs V, Dayan P, Cruz A
Pediatr Infect Dis J . 2025 Mar; PMID: 40073392
Background: Infection is a leading cause of death after pediatric heart transplants (PHTs). Understanding of common pathogens is needed to guide testing strategies and empiric antibiotic use. Methods: We conducted...
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Downs E, Everitt M, Stone M, Miyamoto S
J Am Coll Cardiol . 2025 Feb; 85(8):870-872. PMID: 40010932
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Dusing C, Turner E, Smyth L, Cassidy A, Everitt M, Graves R, et al.
Cardiol Young . 2024 Dec; 35(2):267-274. PMID: 39641496
Purpose: Paediatric patients with heart failure requiring ventricular assist devices are at heightened risk of neurologic injury and psychosocial adjustment challenges, resulting in a need for neurodevelopmental and psychosocial support...
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Chan M, Silveira L, Patterson D, Bock M, Pietra B, Everitt M, et al.
Pediatr Transplant . 2024 Oct; 28(7):e14875. PMID: 39412399
Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common after heart transplantation (HT). There are scarce studies looking at longitudinal changes in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) after repeat HT (RT) and...
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Everitt M, Pahl E, Koehl D, Cantor R, Kirklin J, Reed A, et al.
J Heart Lung Transplant . 2024 Sep; 44(1):82-91. PMID: 39236973
Background: Extending survival after heart transplant (HT) is of paramount importance for childhood recipients of HT. Acute rejection is a significant event, and biopsy remains the most specific means for...
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Downs E, Schafer M, Everitt M, Aubrey M, Mitchell M, Jaggers J, et al.
Pediatr Cardiol . 2024 Aug; PMID: 39115706
ABO-incompatible (ABOi) heart transplantation (HT) has increased organ availability for infants with end-stage heart failure. Despite increasing adoption of ABOi listing for HT, data remain limited regarding pre- and post-HT...
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Bae E, Chandran M, Everitt M, Benz E, Bock M
Clin Transplant . 2024 Aug; 38(8):e15417. PMID: 39087462
Introduction: Limited published experience describes once daily, extended-release tacrolimus (LCP-Tac) use in pediatric solid organ transplantation (SOT), particularly nonrenal SOT. LCP-Tac can simplify immunosuppression (IS) regimens, minimize immediate release-tacrolimus (IR-Tac)-associated...
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Everitt M
Front Transplant . 2024 Jul; 2:1221166. PMID: 38993880
Heart transplant is performed annually in over 600 children worldwide to treat life-limiting cardiac disease. Conversations regarding waitlist mortality, post-transplant morbidity and mortality, and goals of care are commonplace pre-transplant....
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Schafer M, Miyamoto S, Jaggers J, Everitt M, Von Alvensleben J, Campbell D, et al.
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging . 2024 May; 40(7):1565-1574. PMID: 38780709
There is an urgent need for non-invasive imaging-based biomarkers suitable for diagnostic surveillance of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) in pediatric heart transplant (PHT) patients. The purpose of this study was...
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Godown J, Kim E, Everitt M, Chung W, Lytrivi I, Kirmani S, et al.
Pediatr Cardiol . 2024 May; 46(4):798-803. PMID: 38714589
The use of genetic testing has enhanced the diagnostic accuracy of heritable genetic cardiomyopathies. However, it remains unclear how genetic information is interpreted and incorporated into clinical practice for children...