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Transplant Advocates Sound Alarm Over Proposed Medicare Test Coverage Policy

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Heart transplant patient Eddie Garcia was "feeling like a million bucks" one day in the summer of 2021. He had just gotten back from a 3-mile walk, something he couldn't do prior to his transplant in 2020 -.

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Lantheus Announces the FDA Approval of DEFINITY as Ultrasound Enhancing Agent for Use in Certain Pediatric Cardiovascular Patients

DAIC

Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) has approved DEFINITY (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) as an ultrasound enhancing agent for use in pediatric patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, including those who have undergone heart transplant, or have Kawasaki disease or a congenital cardiovascular anomaly. All rights reserved. 4 Fine, N.

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Phenotypes in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Heart failure, heart transplantation and death by cardiac causes were more often seen in individuals with biventricular phenotype compared to isolated left or right ventricular phenotype. 2021 Jun 7;23(6):907-917. ‘Hot phase’ clinical presentation in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.

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FDA Announces Abbott Recall of HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) Implant Kit

DAIC

882 Dates Distributed: March 1, 2021 to present Date Initiated by Firm: March 13, 2024 Device Use The HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) is used to help the heart pump blood when it is not able to do so effectively on its own.

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The Thoracic Surgery Foundation Awards Inaugural International Fellowships

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Technology

The TSF/FFF Fellowship—established in 2021—will help fund international travel and living expenses, allowing the awardees to continue their education outside of their home countries. Professor Large and his team are at the forefront of innovation with respect to nonthermic regional perfusion heart transplantation,” said Dr. Fiedler.

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Vaccine myocarditis update from Korea

Dr. Anish Koka

It was Israeli researchers that first highlighted the novel mRNA vaccines as potentially causing myocarditis in the Spring of 2021, but it has proven difficult to quantify the risk of severe complications beyond scattered case reports of severe morbidity and mortality. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Institutional Coronary Artery Bypass Case Volumes and Outcomes European Journal of Heart Failure October 2023 Makoto Mori 1 Robotic Mitral Valve Repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation The Annals of Thoracic Surgery August 2023 Carlos Diaz-Castrillion 2 Volume-Failure to Rescue Relationship in Acute Type A Aortic Dissections: An Analysis of The (..)