Advances in pediatric heart care are helping more children survive long enough to receive a transplant—but a critical shortage of donor hearts means too many are still dying while they wait, experts warned at the International ...
Apr 25, 2026
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Despite making up half of the 64 million people living with heart failure, patients with this common form have no access to heart pump treatments and are left with only medication or palliative care.
Nov 10, 2025
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A team of Mount Sinai surgeons has performed the first heart-liver-kidney triple organ transplants in New York. They successfully completed two of these complex surgeries on patients from Westchester County, who have since ...
May 20, 2025
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A team led by Children's Hospital Los Angeles has become the first in the world to demonstrate the possibility of using genetically engineered pig hearts as a potential "bridge" to heart transplant for critically ill babies.
Apr 28, 2025
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At today's Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) in Boston, Angela Lorts, MD, MBA, issued an urgent call for improved mechanical circulatory support ...
Apr 27, 2025
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Compared with standard medical care, early use of a temporary intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) to support heart function in patients who were critically ill with cardiogenic shock caused by heart failure did not improve 60-day ...
Mar 31, 2025
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This week, doctors announced that an Australian man with severe heart failure had left hospital with an artificial heart that had kept him alive until he could receive a donor heart.
Mar 16, 2025
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Physicians at Emory University Hospital performed the first-ever surgical implantation in the United States of a brand-new type of heart pump designed to help save patients with heart failure, using a smaller, more comfortable ...
Dec 23, 2024
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Partnerships with civilian trauma centers and health systems provide an underused way for military medical personnel to obtain clinical experience relevant to both combat medicine and general hospital care, according to an ...
Oct 1, 2024
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Pediatric heart transplant (HT) wait-list mortality has declined, but the 2016 pediatric HT allocation policy revisions do not appear to be the reason, according to a study published in the Aug 13 issue of the Journal of ...
Aug 7, 2024
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