Transplantation - Heart

Video

ASAIO 2026 | Implantable Durable MCS: Did We Miss the Boat?

October 8, 2026 | Mark Slaughter

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, Kentucky, USA, presenting on “Implantable...

Video

ECS Club | Endoscopic TAVR Explantation

October 16, 2026 | Jae Suk Yoo

This talk features Jae Suk Yoo from the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, and Asan Medical Center, speaking...

JANS Article

Beating Heart Transplantation After Normothermic Machine Perfusion

October 15, 2026 | Shrikar Modukuri

In a single-institution series of 43 beating-heart transplants performed after normothermic machine perfusion, predominantly using donation after circulatory death (DCD) grafts, Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, USA, investigators observed...

Podcast

The Lifeline: Vasoplegia—New Treatment for an Old Problem

October 14, 2026 | Jill LeySilver Contributor

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...

Event

First International Society for Organ Preservation and Perfusion Therapy (ISOPPT) Meeting

February 19, 2027

Friday, February 19, 2027 – Saturday, February 20, 2027 @ 12:00 am – 8:00 pm – The future of transplantation begins with the organ. Join us in Torino for the...

JANS Article

All-Female UCSF Surgical Team Performs Heart Transplant Surgery, In Likely Historical First

February 16, 2023 | Cameron LindGold Contributor

At UCSF, which has one of the longest running organ transplant programs in the United States, an all-women team led by Dr. Amy Fiedler performed a heart transplant for the...

JANS Article

The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation/Heart Failure Society of America Guideline on Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support

February 12, 2023 | Wei-Guo MaGold Contributor

This guideline on acute mechanical circulatory support covers medical and surgical treatment of cardiogenic and pulmonary shock, management of patients supported with temporary mechanical circulatory support devices, complications, special populations,...

JANS Article

Risks of Infectious Disease in Xenotransplantation

December 19, 2022 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

A free-access short editorial summarising a clinical question that may become central in cardiothoracic practice in future. The two paragraphs on Coronaviruses are of more generalised interest. Surgeons embarking in...

JANS Article

Study Demonstrates Unexpected Electrical Changes in First Successful Transplant of Genetically Modified Pig Heart

November 17, 2022 | Cameron LindGold Contributor

Researchers continue to report findings from the first genetically modified pig heart transplant into a human ten months after the surgery. Their latest study found unexpected electrocardiogram results in the...

JANS Article

Hearts from Donors Who Had COVID Are Safe for Transplant

November 4, 2022 | Cameron LindGold Contributor

New data, to be presented at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting November 5-7, 2022, shows that hearts from COVID-19 positive donors may be as safe to transplant as those...

JANS Article

Black Heart Failure Patients Less Likely to Get Devices and Transplants They Need, Study Finds

October 21, 2022 | Cameron LindGold Contributor

A new study shows that white heart transplant patients are twice as likely to receive a heart transplant or ventricular assist device as Black heart transplant patients, perpetuating existing inequalities...

JANS Article

Competing Risks to Transplant in Bridging With Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices

September 30, 2022 | Cameron LindGold Contributor

This retrospective review compares the outcomes of heart failure patients who used continuous-flow left ventricular device (CF-LVAD) support with patients listed as primary transplant candidates at the same center. The...

JANS Article

Heart Transplantation for Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Outcomes Over 3 Decades

September 15, 2022 | Cameron LindGold Contributor

Over the past three decades, more than 76,000 heart transplantations have been performed. This study evaluated trends and outcomes of patients who underwent the procedure to treat peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM)—a...

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