Patient Care and General Interest
One of the professional golfers who qualified for this weekend’s PGA Tour event is also a two-time heart transplant recipient.
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Heart Transplant
March 1, 2019
February 26, 2019
Today, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons published the third annual Pediatric Interagency Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Support (PEDIMACS) report. Between Sep 19, 2012 and Dec 31, 2017, 423 patients (less than 19 years of age) in 30 hospitals were supported with 508 devices.
February 15, 2019
Patient Care and General Interest
The Donor Alliance observes National Donor Day on February 14th in the US, encouraging people to #StartTheConversation about being an organ donor with their families.
January 18, 2019
Patient Care and General Interest
Air pollution tops the World Health Organization’s list of Top 10 threats to global health.
January 15, 2019
Ibezim and colleagues examined outcomes for patients undergoing their first mechanical mitral valve replacement (M-MVR) before 21 years of age. Using information from the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium database, the authors performed a retrospective analysis of 441 children from 36 centers in the United States.
December 17, 2018
The authors present an extremely challenging case of en bloc heart and liver transplantation in a patient with severe heart and liver failure due to failing Fontan circulation.
December 7, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
A patient who had been admitted to the intensive care unit for chronic heart failure coughed up a cast of his right bronchial tree made of coagulated blood.
November 30, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
November 21, 2018
This video demonstrates a heart transplant for a patient with failed Fontan circulation.
November 1, 2018
In this interview, Shruti Jayakumar speaks with Kumud Dhital about advances in cardiac transplantation.