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CareDx Launches Two Expanded Indications for AlloSure Testing Services

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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.

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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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Two promising approaches in the treatment of myocardial infarction: stem cells and gene therapy

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

At present, the main methods to treat ischemic heart disease are drug therapy, intervention and operation. These methods only alleviate symptoms of heart failure and myocardial ischemia and improve patients' quality of life by partially restoring myocardial reperfusion.

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Ochsner Children’s Hospital Advocates to Close the Gap in Pediatric Heart Care

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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. Yet, research and innovation in this field has not kept pace.

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CVRx Announces Availability of Additional Data Supporting Long-term Benefits of Barostim

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Dr. JoAnn Lindenfeld of Vanderbilt University presented analysis showing that patients with Barostim + GDMT had sustained and significant improvements in quality-of-life scores (MLWHF and EQ-5D) and many subdomains of these scores (e.g., See more details at TCTMD. versus patients on GDMT alone.

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BioCardia Announces CMS Approval of Coverage for CardiAMP Cell Therapy Confirmatory Phase III Heart Failure Study

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In the subgroup of patients targeted in the CardiAMP Heart Failure II Trial, results showed large absolute and relative risk reduction of heart death equivalents of the patients in the treated group. Treated patients also had reduced major adverse cardiac events and greatly improved quality of life. “We

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Preventive catheter ablation for ventricular arrhythmias in patients with end‐stage heart failure referred for heart transplantation evaluation: Rationale for and design of the CASTLE‐VT trial

European Journal of Heart Failure

Cardiovascular mortality, driven by sudden cardiac death, is the main reason for dying while waiting for heart transplantation (HTx). CASTLE-VT will randomize 160 patients with a follow-up period of 2years.