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CareDx Launches Two Expanded Indications for AlloSure Testing Services

DAIC

The Transplant Company recently announced that AlloSureis now commercially available for pediatric heart transplant patients of all ages and patients who have received a simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplant. 5 As with other organ transplants, the organs are at risk of rejection.

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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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What is new in Heart failure management ? Ultrasonic cardiac re-synchronization : The WiSE -CRT device

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

2021 May 21;23(5):740-747. However, advanced heart failure therapy never means it can be achieved only by state-of-the-art technology. Only few lucky patients end up getting heart transplantation, the ultimate treatment. Heart Rhythm. Epub 2021 Jul 29. CRT, cardiac resynchronization therapy. 2021.06.1195.

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Knowledge and application of ESC/HFA guidelines in the management of advanced heart failure

European Journal of Heart Failure

Knowledge and application of European Society of Cardiology/Heart Failure Association (ESC/HFA) guidelines in the management of advanced heart failure (HF). MCS, mechanical circulatory support. Referring patients with severe HF to a tertiary centre team was found to be very difficult or difficult by 8.4% of HFCs, 19.6%

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

Circulation

BACKGROUND:The United Network of Organ Sharing made changes to the priority for allocation of hearts for transplantation (HT) in 2016 for pediatric patients and 2018 for adult patients. Circulation, Ahead of Print.