This video highlights important steps in the technique of ventricular assist device implantation based on the experience at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Implantation at Great Ormond Street Hospital: A Decade of Experience
August 14, 2025
August 8, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Zaid Abu-Mowis, a medical student at the University of Florida College of Medicine, presented on “Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Pediatric Heart Transplantation: A Comparison of Two ERAS.”
August 7, 2025
This study examines the impact of the 2018 United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) heart transplant allocation criteria change on posttransplant stroke rates.
July 25, 2025
At the ASAIO 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Yeahwa Hong presented on “Utilization of Hearts Donated After Circulatory Death Improves All-Cause Survival in Candidates With Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device.”
July 16, 2025
Increasing demand for donor hearts in cardiac transplantation has spurred interest in xenotransplantation aided by advancements in immunosuppression and genetic engineering. Clinical trials of genetically modified pig hearts have seen two patients survive 40 and 60 days before graft failure.
July 16, 2025
This retrospective study analyzed outcomes of 970 bilateral lung transplant recipients at a single center from 2007–2023, stratified by age groups: 15–64, 65–69, 70–74, and 75–years.
July 16, 2025
This recently published consensus statement, endorsed by multiple transplant societies including the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), aims to address the existing gaps in consensus regarding the role of circulating antibodies and their relationship to antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation.
July 3, 2025
This article examined patients in Singapore who were ineligible for transplantation and evaluated the cost-effectiveness of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) use compared to optimal medical therapy.
June 26, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. David Kalfa, the incoming Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, about allogenic mitral valve transplants.
June 26, 2025
Surgeons at Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas, successfully performed the first robotic heart transplant in the U.S. without opening the chest, using small abdominal incisions. This minimally invasive procedure reduced trauma, blood loss, and infection risk, allowing for quicker recovery.