Heart & Lung Transplant

Heart & Lung Transplant News

Heart Transplant Waiting List Priorities May Need Adjustment Patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) can automatically become status 1A on the heart transplant waiting list, and that might be giving some of them an unfair advantage, researchers say.
Reuters Health Information, May 7, 2012
Allomap Transplant-Rejection Test Works in Europe: CARGO 2 Researchers hope the findings will lead to wider European use of the gene-expressing profiling test, which they say could mean fewer surveillance endomyocardial biopsies.
Heartwire, April 25, 2012

Cheney Waited Longer Than Average for Heart Transplant
Reuters Health Information, March 28, 2012
Slight Gains in Lung Transplant Outcomes for Youths
Reuters Health Information, March 14, 2012
ECMO Can Be a Bridge to Lung Transplantation
Reuters Health Information, January 24, 2012
Obesity Hinders Lung Transplant Success
Reuters Health Information, August 22, 2011

Latest on LVADs: What All Docs Need to Know Ileana L. Piña, MD talks to James Kirklin about mechanical assist devices and how LVADs have graduated from being transition devices for transplant patients to long term therapy.
Medscape Cardiology, December 19, 2011
Devices for Heart Failure From TCT 2011: Stay Updated Ileana Piña urges cardiologists to learn about the latest in devices from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 23rd Annual Scientific Symposium.
Medscape Cardiology, November 11, 2011