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Cedars-Sinai Cardiologist Leads the American Society of Transplantation

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Jon Kobashigawa, MD, of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, is an expert in heart transplantation, heart failure, and other complex cardiac conditions. Kobashigawa was instrumental in expanding the Comprehensive Transplant Program at Cedars-Sinai , one of the largest transplant programs in the world. “Dr.

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Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center and NYU Langone Health Expand Partnership to Include Adult Congenital Heart Disease

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New Jersey-based Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center and New York-based NYU Langone Health, both nationally recognized cardiovascular programs, have announced that they are expanding their partnership to provide patients improved access to adult congenital heart disease services and the specialist directed care.

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

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4146823-A4146823, November 12, 2024. 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. Patients without CHD were older (mean age 71.5

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Black Families at Increased Risk of Inherited Heart Condition That Can Cause Heart Failure at a Young Age

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The inherited heart condition often goes undiagnosed until it advances to heart failure, which is why it’s important to identify those at risk and begin treatment early. heart failure/heart transplant programs that contributed to the study. It’s important that we get those screenings done and take it seriously.

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

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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. 5 Kutty, S., et al (2016).

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Abstract 4113494: Gut Microbiota Modulation by Immunosuppression and Cardiac Cell Therapy in a Nonhuman Primate Ischemia/Reperfusion Model of Cardiac Regeneration

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4113494-A4113494, November 12, 2024. End-stage ischemic heart disease necessitates heart transplantation, and emerging cell therapy presents a promising solution to address donor scarcity.

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Use of Right Ventricular Free-Wall Strain in a Multivariable Estimate of Right Ventricular-Arterial Coupling in Pediatric Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, Volume 17, Issue 12 , Page e016882, December 1, 2024. In patients without a history of repaired congenital heart disease (n=88), only RVFW-LS/PASP, PVRi, PASP, and RVFW-LS/PVRi predicted outcomes (area under the curve, 0.738 [P=0.002], 0.729 [P=0.01], 0.729 [P=0.01], and 0.729 [P=0.015], respectively).CONCLUSIONS:In