Mechanical Support & Transplant

Event

10th EACTS Mechanical Circulatory Support Summit.

November 19, 2026

Thursday, November 19, 2026 – Saturday, November 21, 2026 @ 8:00 am – 12:15 pm – The 10th EACTS Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) Summit brings together leading international experts in heart failure and mechanical circulatory...

JANS Article

Right Basilar Segmental Autologous Lung Transplantation With Carinal Reconstruction for Central Lung SCC

September 24, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This case report describes a 75-year-old patient with a centrally located squamous cell carcinoma extending from the carina to the right intermediate bronchus and the superior segment of the lower...

Video

ASAIO 2026 | Celsior Cold Storage and Myocardial Edema in DCD Heart Donation

September 18, 2026

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...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 174: Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

September 17, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...

JANS Article

CT Findings Maintains the Predictive Performance of an Existing Radiograph-Based Donor Lung Acceptability Score

September 17, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This study assessed whether chest computed tomography (CT) findings improve the validated Lung Donor (LUNDON) score for predicting acceptance of brain-dead donor lungs. Among 2,454 donors who underwent CT, emphysema,...

Video

Beating Heart Implant Technique in Donation After Circulatory Death Utilizing Ex Vivo Normothermic Organ Perfusion

August 20, 2024 | Suguru Ohira…

In a standard donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplant, there are two cycles of ischemic reperfusion period. The first one is in the donor hospital and the second one...

Video

How I Do It: Total Artificial Heart Implantation

July 17, 2024 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor…

To begin, a standard median sternotomy was performed and both pleural spaces are widely opened. The anterior diaphragmatic attachments at the pericardium were taken down. The phrenic nerve was identified...

Video

LVADs and RV Dysfunction: Is It Manageable? | ASAIO Webinar

June 26, 2024 | Mark Slaughter…

CTSNet continued its webinar series with ASAIO Journal on June 20, 2024 by enrolling cardiac surgery and heart failure professionals to discuss the topic, “LVADs and RV Dysfunction: Is It...

Video

How I Do It: Pediatric Orthotopic Heart Transplant

June 25, 2024 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor…

In this video, the patient is a six-month-old, 6.4 kg infant with a new diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy. The patient was at home and presented at the hospital in extremis....

Video

Ventriculotomy Occlusion by Felt Plug in LVAD Explantation

May 30, 2024 | Sanjay Chaubey…

This video demonstrates the construction of a felt Dacron plug, which was used to close the ventriculotomy in the left ventricle following explantation of a Heart Mate 3 LVAD device....

Video

Bedside Percutaneous Decannulation of Femoral Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

May 20, 2024 | William Tucker…

At the time of publication, bedside percutaneous VA ECMO decannulations are performed exclusively with the MANTA closure device in the authors’ cardiovascular ICU. They are able to consistently deploy this...

Article

Facing the Challenges of Heart and Lung Harvesting and Procurement in Resource Limited Settings: Colombia

April 25, 2024 | Eric Vinck…

Background The first heart transplant in Colombia was performed in Medellín on December 1, 1985 and the first successful lung transplant in Colombia was performed on October 28, 1997 at...

Video

How to Achieve a Low Transfusion Rate in CABG Surgery: An Interview With Rawn Salenger

April 16, 2024 | Rawn Salenger…

At the 2024 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay...

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