Mechanical Support & Transplant
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about managing the left subclavian artery...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about...
In this study of 4,854 brain-dead donors from three U.S. organ procurement organizations, the donor PaO2 trajectory strongly influenced lung procurement: More than 75 percent had low initial PaO2, but...
In this analysis of the Cardiogenic Shock Working Group registry, 1,502 of 11,386 patients with cardiogenic shock received venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO), more than half with concurrent temporary mechanical...
In this two-center Italian case series of six beating-heart transplants from controlled donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors, thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion restored satisfactory biventricular function and enabled in situ...
This expert review presents 10 guiding principles for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock (PCCS), framing PCCS as a time-dependent trajectory and emphasizing early recognition, phenotype-driven temporary mechanical circulatory support, ventricular unloading, correction...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Bart P. van Putte, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, and the Amsterdam University...
This session features Shivni H. Patel from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, presenting on “Time-Varying Risk and Hazard Phase-Specific Predictors of Right Heart Failure...
Kartagener syndrome is a rare manifestation of primary ciliary dyskinesia characterized by chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, and situs inversus. Progressive bronchiectasis may ultimately lead to end-stage respiratory failure requiring lung transplantation....
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...
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...
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 James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...





