Multicenter development and external validation study, with a prominent contribution from the Utah group, proposing a calculator to estimate—before implantation—the individual probability of significant reverse remodeling in patients with advanced heart failure treated with a durable left ventricular assist device.
This study aimed to determine which strategy provides the greatest net survival benefit as the initial therapeutic option for middle-aged patients with advanced heart failure: heart transplantation or left ventricular assist device therapy.
Observational, retrospective, multicenter study comparing donors, recipients, retrieval techniques, and outcomes of DCD heart transplantation in Europe and the United States.
Commentary on the GUARDIAN registry evaluating donor heart preservation outcomes during transport with different static cold storage–based systems.
Review of a US national database assessing heart transplantation outcomes among patients bridged with ECMO according to whether they were extubated at the time of transplant.
A national observational study based on the UNOS database analyzing how the new heart transplant allocation system in the United States has reshaped the use of temporary mechanical circulatory support devices and its impact on early post-transplant survival.
1st Cardiac Transplantation Symposium held in A Coruña, within the 9th Congress of the Spanish Transplantation Society, focusing on donation, recipient selection, preservation, mechanical circulatory support, and new strategies to improve outcomes after heart transplantation.
A new ISHLT consensus document addresses graft dysfunction within the first 72 hours after transplantation.
Retrospective observational study assessing the incidence of Impella malrotation in patients with cardiogenic shock and its potential association with clinical complications and early prognosis.
A retrospective, multicentre study from 9 centres in China evaluating 181 patients treated with a novel durable ventricular assist device featuring a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal pump and an ultrathin, highly flexible driveline designed to reduce local trauma at the exit site and, consequently, infection.
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