Mechanical Support & Transplant
This session features George M. Pantalos, Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, USA, and Joseph Zwischenberger, Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, Interventional Radiology, and...
This session features George M. Pantalos, Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, USA, and Joseph Zwischenberger, Professor of...
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...
This single-center retrospective study examined 86 living-donor lobar lung transplant recipients who received 163 lobar grafts. Airway complications occurred in eight grafts (4.9 percent), all presenting as bronchial stenosis. Segmental...
This session features Song Li, Director of Data Science at Cardiogenic Shock Working Group and Director of Cardiogenic Shock at Medical City Healthcare, Dallas, Texas, USA, delivering a presentation on...
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,...
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,...
Based on the international multicenter ECLS in Lung Transplantation Registry, this study compared the three surgical approaches to bilateral lung transplantation (BLTx) (clamshell, n=451; isolated bilateral thoracotomies, n=624; and median...
The QUACS Study prospectively evaluated quality-of-life (QoL) changes in 2,762 moderate- and high-risk cardiac surgery patients across a national multicenter cohort (2019–2023). Hospital mortality was 3.93 percent, with 5.86 percent...
This multisociety European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) consensus statement addresses three mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction: ventricular free-wall rupture, pseudoaneurysm, and papillary muscle rupture....
This multicenter registry assessed long-term outcomes of thoracoscopic atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation using a bipolar irrigated radiofrequency clamp across 13 years. Among 678 patients (predominantly longstanding persistent AF), freedom from...
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...
A variety of mechanical circulatory support strategies are available to treat cardiogenic shock with left ventricular failure. Current theory suggests that direct left ventricular unloading should be superior to other...





