Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 23, 2024

Advanced heart failure (AdvHF) can only be treated definitively by heart transplantation (HTx), yet problems such right ventricle dysfunction (RVD), rejection, cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), and primary graft dysfunction (PGD) are linked to a poor prognosis.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

MARCH 6, 2024

Oklahoma City-based Oklahoma Children's Hospital is the first in the state to open a pediatric heart transplant program, ABC affiliate KOCO reported March 5.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

MARCH 18, 2024

Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania researchers found the number of heart transplant emergency department visits increased with high admission rates but low in-hospital mortality rates.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Despite developments in circulating biomarker and imaging technology in the assessment of cardiovascular disease, the surveillance and diagnosis of heart transplant rejection has continued to rely on histopathologic interpretation of the endomyocardial biopsy.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

MAY 28, 2024

Researchers at Atlanta-based Emory University developed artificial intelligence that they say improves the prediction of successful heart transplants by 10%.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 8, 2024

Boston-based Tufts Medical Center broke the New England regional adult heart transplant record with 61 transplants in 2023.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD, provides insight into the potential impact of a new risk score for heart transplant allocation as well as the need for more equitable cardiovascular care in the US.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

MAY 9, 2024

A heart pump device the size of an AA battery could help children in need of a heart transplant wait at home rather than the hospital, Science Daily reported May 7.

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Wellnest

JANUARY 24, 2024

Introduction: Wellnest brings you , the latest medical news where an infant successfully received a partial heart transplant! In a remarkable leap forward for pediatric cardiac care, a groundbreaking partial heart transplant procedure has emerged as a beacon of hope for infants facing severe congenital heart conditions.

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HeartRhythm

AUGUST 21, 2024

Among pediatric patients undergoing orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT), 1-12% are reported to need a permanent pacemaker (PPM).1 We studied a multi-institutional cohort of pediatric OHT recipients who received cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) after transplantation to explore the outcome.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 2, 2024

Nearly a year after a newborn received the world's first partial heart transplant, the transplanted valves and arteries are functioning well and growing along with the child's heart — a key measure of success in the procedure paving the way for future advancements.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When patients awaiting crucial heart transplants are placed on the organ transplant waiting list, they've traditionally been arranged based on what type of treatments they were receiving for their current condition. But researchers from the University of Chicago have discovered a new, more accurate way to rank patients.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A novel risk score developed by University of Chicago investigators outperformed conventional models in predicting death in heart transplant candidates, which could help bring the field closer to optimal and equitable allocation.

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HeartRhythm

MARCH 27, 2024

1 Our interest was due in part to our prior work examining the stability of indices of pacemaker function and need for continued pacing among orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) patients, which included a time period during which the bi-atrial anastomosis technique was still being performed at our institution.2

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

MAY 12, 2024

A 53-year-old woman with the dilated phase of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy underwent orthotopic heart transplantation. The donor heart was evaluated as normal preoperatively without mitral regurgitation or the.

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HeartRhythm

MARCH 31, 2024

Wimmer et al regarding our article “Need for cardiac implantable electronic devices and long-term follow-up in recipients of orthotopic heart transplants”. The question of pacemakers and impact on survival in orthotopic heart transplant patients is thus far unanswered.1

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American College of Cardiology

JULY 15, 2024

The goal of the EVOLVD trial was to demonstrate the efficacy of evolocumab on coronary intimal thickness in heart transplant recipients.

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American College of Cardiology

APRIL 23, 2024

How useful is the 5-tier Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) ranking for heart transplant programs?

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Adult patients surviving with congenital heart disease (ACHD) is growing. We examine the factors associated with heart transplant outcomes in this challenging population with complex anatomy requiring redo-sur.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

JUNE 20, 2024

Pretransplant type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with increased cardiovascular and all-cause mortality after heart transplant (HT), but the underlying causes of this association remain unclear.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MAY 2, 2024

Eosinophilic myocarditis (EM), a rare condition, is fatal if left untreated and has rarely been described in heart transplant recipients. The cornerstone of treatment is corticosteroids, comprehensive therapy and heart failure management (including advanced mechanical support for fulminant myocarditis).

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

The removal of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) leads at the time of heart transplantation (OHT) can be challenging due to adherence to the vessel walls. As a result, lead fragments are often abandoned (19 to 39% of patients after OHT), serving as a potential nidus for infection and/or thrombus formation.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 10, 2024

Introduction Heart transplantation (HT) is the only treatment option in children with heart failure secondary to cardiomyopathies and non-reparable congenital heart diseases.

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

APRIL 2, 2024

BACKGROUND:In heart transplant recipients, right ventricular (RV) dysfunction may occur for a variety of reasons. Whether RV dysfunction in the stable phase after heart transplantation is associated with long-term adverse outcomes is unknown. years after heart transplantation were included.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

MARCH 4, 2024

"Discover the incredible story of Bert Janssen, the Dutch man who has lived with a donor heart for 39 years and 252 days, officially confirmed as the world's lo

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

Cardiac arrhythmias are often encountered in orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) recipients due to multiple risk factors and may lead to the necessity of permanent pacemaker implantation(PPI). Ischemic time > 4 hours has been associated with graft dysfunction.

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

Its association with orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) is not known. Atrial standstill is a rare condition characterized by the absence of electrical and mechanical activity of the atria. Recognized causes include drugs, myocardial ischemia, and hypoxia.

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Nature Reviews - Cardiology

JANUARY 22, 2024

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 23 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-00991-6 Heart valve replacement in newborn babies remains an unsolved problem because currently used heart valve implants do not grow. This lack of implant growth mandates serial re-operations until adult-size valve implants can be fitted.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MAY 19, 2024

BackgroundThe use of Intra-aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) and Impella devices as a bridge to heart transplantation (HTx) has increased significantly in recent times. or IABP.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

MAY 7, 2024

A new type of surgically implanted pump that can support a child's failing heart has passed the first stage of human testing in a recent trial.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JULY 24, 2024

Discover the innovative device developed by Tampa General Hospital researchers that extends the viability of transplant hearts by three hours

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HeartRhythm

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Cardiac pacemaker implantation after orthotopic heart transplantation declined dramatically after development of the bicaval anastomosis technique. However, much less is known about the rate, indications, and predictors of device implantations with current surgical technique.

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HeartRhythm

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In this issue of Heart Rhythm, Gowani, et al. ask us to reflect on a subset of 399 consecutive patients who underwent bicaval anastomotic orthotopic heart transplantation at their institution from 1991-2017, of which 31 (8%) received cardiac electronic implantable devices (CIEDs). (1)

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

AUGUST 5, 2024

The United Network for Organ Sharing pediatric transplant list does not rank patients by medical need, according to a study published Aug. 5 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fulminant myocarditis has been defined as the clinical manifestation of cardiac inflammation with rapid-onset heart failure and cardiogenic shock. We report on the case of a 17-year-old boy with hemodynamic de.

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CTVS

JULY 8, 2024

One of the most common health issues facing men is heart disease. A precursor to heart attacks and heart failure, heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in men over recent years. If you think it can’t happen to you, think again. 43-year-old Brandon… Source

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. BackgroundAnnual heart transplant (HT) volumes have increased, as have post‐HT outpatient care needs.

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