Patient Care and General Interest
A congenital heart surgeon in Boston, Massachusetts, was once a patient himself.
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Heart/lung Transplant
August 17, 2018
August 17, 2018
A useful if somewhat belated account of the Papworth experience in lung donation after circulatory determined death (DCD) until 2015. There are no data on heart and lung transplants in that 6-year period. No DCD recipient required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and DCD single lung recipients did badly.
November 16, 2017
The incoming issue of the Journal comes with an interesting group of papers revolving around a provocative topic: work from Seattle on the absence of predictive value of standard pulmonary function tests in LVAD surgery. Vivek Rao takes the opportunity to present his thoughts in this brief editorial, the important central message of which cannot be
November 1, 2016
An interesting case series of cardiotoxicity of modern chemotherapy attempting to elucidate mechanisms of heart failure.
March 2, 2015
This study evaluated outcomes of synchronous or delayed kidney Tx in patients with lung or heart-lung transplant. Delayed living-donor kidney Tx was associated with favorable outcomes. Synchronous cadaver kidney transplant at the time of heart-lung or lung transplant was clinically challenging.
October 28, 2014
The Heart and Lung Transplant team of St. Vincent’s hospital (Sydney, Australia) have successfully transplanted “dead” hearts into three patients. The donor hearts had stopped beating for 20 minutes, but were kept viable by being immersed in a preservation solution.