Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 10, 2024

"Oklahoma Children's Hospital OU Health performs first pediatric heart transplant in decades, reviving program and becoming only center in state."

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

based Northwell Health has received approval from the state health department to open a heart transplant center at Cohen Children's Medical Center in Queens. New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Wed, 02/21/2024 - 19:10 February 21, 2024 — Ochsner Children's Hospital , ranked among the top hospitals in the nation for pediatric cardiology and congenital heart surgery, is raising awareness of the need for more pediatric-specific heart devices.

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Conquering CHD

JANUARY 17, 2025

Seeing two brothers have HLHS is extremely rare and even more rare is how differently the condition presented in each child, says Childrens Hospital Colorado cardiothoracic surgeon Max Mitchell, MD, who performed the procedures on Zane and advised on Zekes care. Within one day, our heart transplant team performed the transplant surgery.

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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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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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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

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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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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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 13, 2025

"Vanderbilt Transplant Center sets world record with 174 heart transplants in 2024, including pediatric procedures. Learn more about their achievements and adva

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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

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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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

MARCH 11, 2025

A team at Pittsburgh-based UPMC Presbyterian Hospital performed a heart and kidney transplant without the use of blood products for the first time at the hospital.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 7, 2024

Case presentation A 43-year-old man with a body mass index of 41 kg/m 2 was admitted to our hospital for acute heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy. The patient required prolonged catecholamine support owing to poor cardiac function, and heart transplantation was considered.

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Cardiology Update

APRIL 25, 2024

RELIEVE-HF investigators evaluated the efficacy and safety of the V-wave interatrial shunt system in patients with heart failure. 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.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Pictured Left to Right: Members and students of the McGill Gene Editing Laboratory at The Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas: Fansen Meng, PhD, Xiao Li, PhD, James Martin, MD, PhD, Rich Li, PhD (back), Maggie Lim (undergraduate student at Rice University front), Yuka Morikawa, PhD, Ann Bromley.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction:Pediatric heart transplant (PHT) recipient survival has improved. Yet, neurologic morbidity related to heart failure and its treatment persist. Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATP261-ATP261, February 1, 2025. Data are presented as frequency (%) or median (Inter Quartile Range-IQR).Results:Of

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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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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 25, 2024

On the contrary, the use of transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (TEER) has exponentially increased over the past decade, expanding its potential use even in patients on the heart transplantation waiting list.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

AUGUST 5, 2024

In September, Miami Transplant Institute named Hari Mallidi, MD, chief of cardiac surgery and program director of heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support at MTI, as well as director of the Jackson Heart Institute in Miami.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Lars Svensson, MD, PhD, was on vacation in 1967 when he and his father heard about the first person-to-person heart transplant, performed by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard.

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DAIC

MARCH 6, 2024

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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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JULY 30, 2024

Discover the journey of Dr. Hari Mallidi, the new chief of cardiac surgery at Miami Transplant Institute, as he works to rebuild the heart transplant program

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Circulation

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Individual programs oftentimes develop upper age limits for various interventional strategies for their patients, including heart transplantation and durable left ventricular assist devices. However, age as a lone parameter should not be used to guide individual patient management decisions in cardiogenic shock.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

based Duke Health has performed the world's first living mitral valve replacement after a heart transplant patient donated healthy valves from their original heart to two other patients. A team from Durham, N.C.-based

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Heart 2023 Conference

JANUARY 17, 2024

Artirat Charukitpipat, CEO of Bumrungrad International Hospital, along with Associate Professor Dr. Taveesin Tanprayoon, Chief Medical Officer, and Professor Dr. Koonlawee Nademanee, Director of the Bumrungrad Heart Institute in Thailand, have spearheaded the establishment of a world-class heart institute.

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CardiacWire

AUGUST 21, 2024

The V-Wave Ventura Interatrial Shunt’s unique approach appears to be quite effective, as a recent study showed a 45% reduction in cardiovascular events and 52% fewer HF hospitalizations over two years, without any procedure-related major adverse events.

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Technology

JANUARY 19, 2022

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. I feel honored and privileged to receive the International Traveling Fellowship.

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Circulation: Heart Failure

MARCH 8, 2024

Centers performing at least 1 heart transplant or left ventricular assist device were classified as ATCs. A secondary analysis evaluated outcomes for severe HF hospitalizations (cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, and mechanical ventilation). of centers), 525 037 (18.3%) were admissions to ATCs (5.5%

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MIBHS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Open-Heart Surgery : In cases where catheterization is not sufficient, open-heart surgery may be required to repair the defect. This involves opening the chest and heart to make the necessary repairs. Heart Transplant : In the most severe cases, where the heart is too damaged to be repaired, a heart transplant may be necessary.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Heart transplant patients who live in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas are more likely to experience post-surgical complications and die within five years than patients who live in more advantaged areas, even when those patients were transplanted at topnotch high-volume hospitals.

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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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DAIC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Aortix Endovascular Device for Acute Heart Failure ) study will evaluate the Aortix percutaneous mechanical circulatory support (pMCS) technology in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) who are unresponsive to standard medical therapy. I am thrilled to enroll the first patient in this important trial.

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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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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. Multivariable logistic regression was used to predict outcomes of hospital admission and death. HT volumes and HT‐related ED visits increased from 2009 to 2018.

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DAIC

MARCH 29, 2024

"We're pleased to present the RELIEVE-HF data at this year's ACC meeting, as we continue to advance this important technology with the goal of bringing a much-needed treatment option to patients with advanced heart failure, a leading cause of death and hospitalization in the U.S. and worldwide," said Neal Eigler, M.D. , CEO of V-Wave.

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Cardiology Update

JANUARY 22, 2024

The primary outcome was death from any cause, and the secondary outcome included a composite of death, heart transplantation, or ventricular assist device implantation. At a mean (±SD) follow-up of 40±20 months, CRT showed a significantly lower risk of death or hospitalization due to heart failure.

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