Donor selection in heart transplantation in 2025: expanding the transplant horizon
This state-of-the-art document provides an overview of current donor selection strategies in heart transplantation (HT), highlighting how technical advances have enabled an expansion in the donor pool and increased transplant rates.
Leadless pacing: historical background and future perspectives.
This article provides a comprehensive review of the current state of leadless cardiac pacing, tracing its historical evolution, analyzing the available evidence, and highlighting future challenges and expectations for this technology.
Standardizing outcomes of long-term mechanical circulatory support in Europe
4th report of the EUROMACS registry by the EACTS with a focus on standardized outcome ratios
Via crucis of TAVI versus surgery in low-risk patients: the three denials
Meta-analysis of the longest available follow-up outcomes from the six main randomized trials comparing TAVI and SAVR in low surgical risk patients in terms of survival and stroke.
Impella® in post-infarction VSD: a paradigm shift?
Systematic review of observational studies and case series evaluating the use of the Impella® device as hemodynamic support prior to definitive treatment in patients with post-infarction ventricular septal defect (VSD).
Is endovascular treatment using venous stents feasible for veno-occlusive disease in the thoracic and upper limb region?
Pioneering meta-analysis summarizing the outcomes of endovascular treatment for benign and malignant occlusive venous disease in the upper body.
Swedeheart registry: long-term survival and graft durability support surgical revascularization
Seventeen-year outcomes from the SWEDEHEART registry comparing morbidity and mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
The importance of the genes we operate on
Description of the genetic syndromes most commonly associated with congenital heart disease and analysis of their cardiac and extracardiac manifestations based on the experience of the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
