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Impact of Heart Transplant Allocation Changes on Waitlist Mortality and Clinical Practice in Pediatric and Adult Patients With Congenital Heart Disease and Cardiomyopathy

Circulation

Cohorts were grouped into preallocation and postallocation change eras: pediatric patients from January 1, 2011, to March 21, 2016, and January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2021; and adult patients from January 1, 2015, to October 17, 2018, and January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2021.

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CVRx Announces Availability of Additional Data Supporting Long-term Benefits of Barostim

DAIC

The key benefits of Barostim contained in the manuscript include the following: There was not a statistically significant difference in the primary endpoint of CV death and HF hospitalization, demonstrating that the benefits of the therapy do not increase the long-term risk of harm to patients Patients receiving Barostim + guideline-directed medical (..)

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J&J Expands Into Interventional HF Treatments With V-Wave Acquisition

CardiacWire

These improvements would allow the Ventura IAS to address the notable HFrEF treatment gap between GDMT and far more invasive therapies like LVAD and heart transplantation. The Ventura already has a European CE Mark, and gained FDA Breakthrough Device Designation back in 2019, although its still working towards FDA approval.

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Abstract 4146823: Trends and Outcomes in Heart Failure Admissions and Cardiogenic Shock Among Patients with Congenital Heart Disease

Circulation

Heart transplant rates were low but increased slightly in 2020 for patients without CHD, with DV and SV CHD patients showing fluctuating rates peaking in 2018 and 2019, then declining in 2020.

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Elevated Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Levels Are Associated With Reduced Myocardial Blood Flow but Not Angiographic Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: The EVIDENT Study

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) leads to impaired myocardial blood flow (MBF), increasing the risk of cardiovascular death or retransplant among heart transplantation (HT) recipients.

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Impact of Advanced Therapy Centers on Characteristics and Outcomes of Heart Failure Admissions

Circulation: Heart Failure

Centers performing at least 1 heart transplant or left ventricular assist device were classified as ATCs. Patient characteristics, outcomes, and procedural volume were compared among 3 cohorts: admissions to non-ATCs, admissions to ATCs, and transfers to ATCs.

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Catheter ablation of typical atrial flutter improves cardiac chamber size and function

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Methods A retrospective study was conducted on 468 patients who underwent ablation for CTI dependent typical AFL at a single institution between 2010 and 2019. Echocardiographic data were analyzed at baseline before ablation, and at early follow-up within 1-year postablation.