Transplantation - Heart
In this episode of the CTSNet podcast, The Lifeline, host and nurse educator Jill Ley, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, Founder of the Essentials of Cardiac Surgical Resuscitation,...
This session features Mark S. Slaughter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute at the University of Louisville,...
This session features Rishav Bhattacharya from the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, presenting on “Celsior Cold Storage Attenuates Myocardial Edema in...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Chris Malaisrie, a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Northwestern University and an Attending...
Cleveland and colleagues present a translational study evaluating porcine cardiac xenotransplantation as a potential bridge to allotransplantation in infants with congenital heart disease. A total of 15 baboons underwent implantation...
This video series showcases a robotic mitral valve replacement performed by Dr. Feras Khaliel, a world leader in robotics, at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel...
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on mesenchymal stem cells and transplants. Dr. Laurens Ceulemans, a thoracic and transplant surgeon...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Nikki Stamp, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Mount Private Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, who also serves as an...
In this article, the authors explored why cardiac metastases remain rare despite continuous coronary perfusion. In a mouse heterotopic heart transplantation model, lung adenocarcinoma cells showed limited growth in mechanically...
This retrospective observational study aimed to compare clinical outcomes and demographics of donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplantation (HT) between European and United States (US) centers. Analyzing 504 patients...
This multi-institutional study developed and validated the RecoverHeart calculator to estimate the probability of significant myocardial reverse remodeling during continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support. Using a derivation (n=509)...
In this article, the authors review the current and emerging role of robotic-assisted surgery in vascular surgery. They describe the evolution of surgical robotic systems and summarize evidence on robotic...
This study examines the impact of the 2018 United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) heart transplant allocation criteria change on posttransplant stroke rates. The study included 19,512 patients from the...



