This study examines the impact of the 2018 United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) heart transplant allocation criteria change on posttransplant stroke rates.
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Transplantation - Heart
August 7, 2025
July 24, 2025
With the improvement in survival rates for heart transplant recipients, cardiac valvular disease is more frequently being encountered in this group of patients. This includes conditions such as aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation in the transplanted heart.
June 12, 2025
The use of mechanical support devices in the pediatric population is an area of active investigation. The authors evaluated all pediatric patients at a single institution who presented in cardiogenic shock and were treated with an Impella device.
May 29, 2025
This article investigated the role of different definitions of warm ischemia time during donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplants and the development of severe primary graft dysfunction (PGD).
February 27, 2025
This article presents findings from the second-ever pig-to-human heart xenotransplant. A 58-year-old patient with end-stage heart failure received a 10-gene-edited porcine heart and was maintained on a novel anti-CD40L immunosuppressive regimen.
February 13, 2025
Researchers have shown that patches of muscle grown from stem cells can help repair a failing heart. A laboratory-grown biological transplant with the potential to stabilize and strengthen the heart muscle can be implanted onto the heart surface.
December 12, 2024
In the TRISCEND II trial, a total of 400 patients with severe symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation were randomized in a 2:1 ratio to undergo either transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement with medical therapy (valve-replacement group) or medical therapy alone (control group).
June 25, 2024
This is a technique video demonstrating how Dr. David Lehenbauer performs a heart transplant in a pediatric patient with dilated cardiomyopathy.
June 5, 2024
This report comprises the contents of the presentations and following discussions of a workshop of the German Heart Transplant Centers in Martinsried, Germany on cardiac xenotransplantation.
May 2, 2024
A fifty-four-year-old woman became the first person to simultaneously receive a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and mechanical heart valve implantation. Surgeons performed the heart pump procedure first before performing the transplant days later.