MeSH tree: E04.928
Two years ago, the United Network for Organ Sharing implemented new allocation guidelines for lung transplants that prioritize medical urgency. Now new research, published at the 2025 ATS International Conference and in the ...
May 18, 2025
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A Cornell University project to save babies born with serious heart defects has lost key funding just days after it was approved.
May 12, 2025
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Edwards Lifesciences' SAPIEN 3 platform, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) therapy, for patients with severe aortic stenosis without symptoms. The approval ...
May 6, 2025
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New analysis from the EARLY TAVR trial showed patients between the age of 65 and 70 years old derived the most benefits of a strategy of early intervention with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) compared to other ...
May 2, 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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In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused simply because transplant teams couldn't get the organ to a recipient in time.
Apr 27, 2025
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A new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine found that heavy alcohol use does not directly cause dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), an inherited heart muscle disease.
Apr 25, 2025
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When receiving a lung transplant, one of the most important complications to look out for is chronic lung allograft dysfunction, known as CLAD. Preventing this complication for those who receive a lung transplant is of the ...
Apr 22, 2025
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A new technique to mark peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) before surgical resection was studied by Ganesh Krishna, M.D., a pulmonary/critical care medicine specialist, researcher and interventional pulmonologist at Sutter's ...
Apr 21, 2025
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When considering whether a child who has a single-ventricle heart defect would benefit more from biventricular repair or the Fontan procedure, heart specialists have lacked a key tool to guide them: data that shows possible ...
Apr 15, 2025
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