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

DAIC

In July 2021, Atlantic Health System and NYU Langone Health announced their partnership on organ transplantation that coordinates transplant care at Morristown Medical Center for heart patients and Overlook Medical Center for liver patients allowing greater access through a high-quality and highly collaborative patient care team.

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The Thoracic Surgery Foundation Awards Inaugural International Fellowships

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Technology

With her fellowship, Dr. Fiedler plans to learn skills and administrative approaches that will help her expand the heart transplant program at UW-Madison, where she currently serves as associate director of heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. For more information, visit sts.org.

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What is the mechanism of LBBB in DCM ? How does left bundle branch pacing correct it ?

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

Which is more often not the case) Unfortunately, while technology allow us to replace a defective valve or even transplant a entire heart. There is less compelling academic reasons for this change, than we think. At best, we can try stimulating the heart it two or three sites.

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

DAIC

Hershberger leads the DCM Consortium , which is composed of 25 leading academic U.S. heart failure/heart transplant programs that contributed to the study. It’s the most common cause of patients needing a heart transplant and is responsible for about half of heart failure cases that result from a weakened left ventricle.

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The STS Leadership Institute: A Year of Growth

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Early Career

I had recently sold my STAR Teams clinical practice, had a busy clinical year, and reached a career milestone highlighted in a publication of our thoracic transplant work spanning 15 years. Personal Growth The program’s first session, Individual Growth, and the last session, The Capstone, were what I remembered most about my experience.

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Championing Change: Celebrating Cardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC) Women Faculty

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Anuradha Lala-Trindade, MD: She focuses on the selection and care of patients with mechanical circulatory support devices and heart transplantation, genetic cardiomyopathies, and perioperative management of high-risk cardiac surgical cases. A framework for mentor-mentees can help promote and retain women in academic medicine.

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Highlights of ACC 2024

Cardiology Update

The primary endpoint was a composite of all-cause mortality, left ventricular assist device (LVAD)/heart transplantation, HF hospitalizations, worsening HF, and KCCQ score changes. The primary superiority endpoint was clinically relevant bleeding (Bleeding Academic Research Consortium [known as BARC] types 2, 3, or 5).

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