Transplantation - Heart

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 165: Valve-Sparing Aortic Root Replacement Techniques

July 16, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

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 Cardiac Surgeon at Northwestern Medicine,...

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

Reactive Vasodilation Predicts Mortality in Primary Systemic Light Chain (AL) Amyloidosis

August 13, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

The translational value for cardiac transplantation of this prospective multi-centre clinical study of vasodilation in amyloidosis remains to be evaluated.

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JANS Article

Long-Term Transplant Outcomes of Donor Hearts With Left Ventricular Dysfunction

June 4, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

Left ventricular ejection fraction was not a predictor of outcomes after heart transplant, and was normal in all recipients at 1 year posttransplant. The reliance on generic transthoracic echocardiography for...

Video

Donation After Cardiac Death Heart Transplantation: The New Frontier

May 30, 2019 | Maziar Khorsandi

Simon Messer, a specialist trainee registrar in cardiothoracic surgery and a researcher on heart donation after cardiac death (DCD) at the Royal Papworth Hospital in the UK, presents his center’s...

JANS Article

What Number Are We? Donor Sequence and Outcomes of Heart Transplantation

May 21, 2019 | Amy Fiedler

The authors utilized a retrospective review of the UNOS database from 2007-2014 to evaluate the impact of donor sequence number (DSN) on outcomes. Specifically, they interestingly identified that survival is...

JANS Article

In Global News: Cardiac Regeneration in Pigs, Health Effects of Marijuana Use, and Running to Reduce Aortic Stiffness

May 10, 2019 | Claire VernonGold Contributor

Patient Care and General Interest As state-specific regulations around marijuana change in the US, physicians and surgeons express concern about the dearth of information about the potential long-term harmful effects...

JANS Article

Heart and Lung Transplants From HCV-Infected Donors to Uninfected Recipients

April 28, 2019 | Arie BlitzGold ContributorSilver Commentor

The authors of this single-center open-label pilot trial evaluated the intermediate-term outcomes of patients undergoing either heart (n=8) or lung (n=36) transplantation from donors that had evidence of active hepatitis...

JANS Article

In Global News: Airbnb for Cancer Treatment, Comics for Informing Consent, and Reducing Tobacco Use

April 12, 2019 | Claire VernonGold Contributor

Patient Care and General Interest Washington state will increase the age at which people can purchase tobacco and vaping products to 21, part of a growing Tobacco 21 law movement...

JANS Article

In Global News: Specialized Regional Organ Recovery Teams, the Importance of Tumor Board Discussions, and Coffee and Lung Cancer

April 5, 2019 | Claire VernonGold Contributor

Patient Care and General Interest In this brief video, an oncologist shares some thoughts on the value of tumor board discussions and the importance of having them early in a...

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