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Immunosuppressant adherence after heart transplantation: a review on detection, prevention, and intervention strategies in a multidisciplinary

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Heart transplantation is an effective treatment for end-stage heart disease, and postoperative patients' medication adherence is crucial for transplantation outcomes and long-term survival.

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Boston Children's performs elective partial heart transplant

Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

Discover the groundbreaking work of Boston Children's cardiac surgeons as they perform the first elective partial heart transplant on a 4-year-old boy

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Advocate Children's establishes heart transplant program

Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

"Discover Advocate Children's Hospital's new pediatric heart transplant program led by top doctors and certified by UNOS, in partnership with other top hospital

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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. Pediatr Transplant.

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AI tools better at predicting heart transplant rejection than standard clinical method, finds study

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

More than 4,500 heart transplants were performed in the U.S. While the lifesaving operation improves the quality of life and longevity for most recipients, organ rejection remains a risk, with acute rejection occurring in up to 32% of recipients within the first year.

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NBA Champion, 'Survivor' Contestant Receives Heart Transplant

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- NBA champion and "Survivor" contestant Scot Pollard is "awake and feeling great" a day after a heart transplant, his wife said Saturday on social media. Scot has a new heart!" Dawn Pollard posted Friday night on X, formerly.

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Donated Heart Valves Still Growing a Year After World's 1st Partial Heart Transplant

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- The newborn that received the world's first partial heart transplant in 2022 continued to do well a year later, according to a case report from the transplant team. Born with type A2 persistent truncus arteriosus and irreparable.