DAIC

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

© THE TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE 2024 milla1cf Tue, 02/13/2024 - 17:56 February 13, 2024 — Pediatric heart transplantation has long been hailed as a life-saving intervention for children suffering from end-stage heart failure. This helps us gain a comprehensive understanding of the immune response dynamics within transplanted hearts."

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

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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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HCPLive

JANUARY 24, 2025

Factors associated with 30-day readmission were shorter hospital stays after transplant, insurance status, and patient history of diabetes and malignancy.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In 2024, Boston-based Tufts Medical Center performed 70 adult heart transplants, breaking its 2023 record by nine and setting the New England region record for the second year in a row.

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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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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 11, 2024

hospital to perform a BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart implantation as part of the FDA's early feasibility study. Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix has become the third U.S.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

DECEMBER 20, 2023

based Vanderbilt Transplant Center partnered with Evansville, Ind.-based based Deaconess Health System to open a new transplant clinic in Newburgh, Ind. Nashville, Tenn.-based

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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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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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Heart Transplant Transplant Hospital Research 59

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

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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Heart Transplant Transplant 110

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

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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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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JAMA Cardiology

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A patient in his mid-60s underwent bilateral orthotopic lung transplant and is later hospitalized for sepsis from pneumonia complicated by acute transplant rejection, without any cardiac symptoms. He develops severe acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring intubation and paralysis. What would you do next?

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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

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

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

BackgroundLung transplantation (LTx) is the definitive treatment for end-stage pulmonary diseases, with venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) used as a common perioperative support. Patients were divided into central (n=31) and peripheral (n=91) groups.

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HCPLive

MARCH 12, 2024

A greater patient-to-patient care technician ratio was associated with increased mortality and hospitalization with lower rates of waitlisting and transplantation among patients receiving in-center hemodialysis.

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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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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction:Pediatric heart transplant (PHT) recipient survival has improved. Demographic, and pre-, intra-, and post-PHT clinical, brain imaging and RT (physical, occupational, speech and feeding therapy) data were collected up to PHT hospitalization. Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATP261-ATP261, February 1, 2025.

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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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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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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, 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

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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DAIC

JANUARY 8, 2024

milla1cf Mon, 01/08/2024 - 14:35 January 8, 2024 — University Hospitals (UH) Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute recently became the first center in the world to implant Medtronic’s Penditure Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Exclusion System through a minimally invasive approach during a mitral valve repair procedure.

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Bicuspid/Mitral Atrial Fibrillation Anatomy Coronary Artery Disease 124

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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Journal of the American Heart Association

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, the ductus arteriosus stent (DAS) has become a viable alternative.Methods and ResultsThis was a retrospective multicenter study of neonates ≤30 days undergoing DAS or Blalock‐Taussig‐Thomas shunt placement between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2020 at hospitals reporting to the Pediatric Health Information Systems database.

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DAIC

MARCH 13, 2024

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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