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UrduLurie Children’s surpassed a hospital record in its recent fiscal year by performing a record 140 pediatric transplants, including, heart, kidney, liver and stem cell.
Tag: Heart Transplant
Heart transplant patients from socioeconomically deprived areas face higher risk for postoperative complications, earlier death than others
Heart transplant patients who live in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas are more likely to experience post-surgical complications and die within five years than patients who live in more advantaged areas, even when those patients were transplanted at topnotch high-volume hospitals.
What is Heart Transplant Rejection?
A heart transplant is a lifesaving gift. But it means adjusting to a new way of life. Without anti-rejection measures, the body’s immune system will reject the transplanted heart.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Cardiologist Honored by World Children’s Transplant Fund
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles cardiologist Jondavid Menteer, MD, was honored with the World Children’s Transplant Fund “WCTF for the Children Award.” The prestigious award recognized Dr. Menteer for 20 years of dedication and leadership in pediatric heart transplant at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which is home to the largest heart center for children in the Western U.S.
Normothermic perfusion system extends life of organs waiting for transplant
It increases the number of hearts considered for transplants
Baylor Scott & White Presents at ISHLT 44th Annual Meeting
The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 44th Annual Meeting is April 10-13 in Prague. Baylor Scott & White researchers will present the latest insights to better serve patients with end-stage heart and lung disease.Investigators at Baylor Scott &…
Four University of Michigan research teams selected for virtual tournament of science
Four University of Michigan research teams have made the bracket of 64 teams for STAT Madness, a virtual tournament of science. They were picked for their groundbreaking work on brain cancer, heart transplant, dementia care and deadly fungal infections published in 2023.
Inaccurate pulse oximeter readings could limit transplants, heart pumps for Black patients with heart failure
University of Michigan researchers find that racially biased pulse oximeter readings may further limit opportunities for Black patients with heart failure — who are already less likely to get treatment — to receive potentially lifesaving therapies, such as heart pumps and transplants.
Adult Congenital Heart Surgery Team Saves a Life, Sparks an Idea
She was five days postpartum. Her first child was a perfect baby girl. What was supposed to be among the happiest times in Marisa Dominguez’s life was, instead, the scariest.
Beth Israel Lahey Health Launches Heart Transplant Program
Beth Israel Lahey Health has expanded its cardiovascular services to include heart transplantation based at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
UCLA research suggests that heart transplantation is safer for adults with single-ventricle CHD than previously thought
FINDINGS UCLA-led research finds that among adult congenital heart disease (CHD) transplant recipients, single-ventricle physiology correlated with higher short-term mortality. But 10-year conditional survival was similar for biventricular and most single-ventricle CHD patients, and notably better for biventricular CHD patients compared to non-CHD heart transplant recipients.
Heart transplant patients from socioeconomically distressed communities face higher mortality, organ failure risk
FINDINGS People from socioeconomically distressed communities who underwent heart transplantation between 2004 and 2018 faced a 10% greater relative risk of experiencing graft failure and dying within five years compared to people from non-distressed communities. In addition, following implementation of the 2018 UNOS Heart Allocation policy, transplant recipients between 2018 and 2022 faced an approximately 20% increase in relative risk of dying or experiencing graft failure within three years compared with the pre-policy period.
In historic procedure, donor liver protects heart transplant
Doctors in Seattle are reporting a history-making case in which a patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extreme likelihood that her body would reject a donor heart transplanted alone. In this innovative case, the organ recipient’s own healthy liver was transplanted, domino-like, into a second patient who had advanced liver disease.
Multicenter Trial Finds Using Circulatory Death Donors is Safe and Effective for Heart Transplantation
A study published in New England Journal of Medicine confirms that circulatory death donor hearts that are reanimated and perfused with blood outside of the body are as safe and effective to transplant as brain death donor hearts preserved using traditional cold storage. These findings suggest that using hearts donated after circulatory death (DCD) may have the potential to widen the donor pool helping more patients in need of life-saving heart transplants.
New Heart Transplant Method May Grow Donor Pool 30%
A study led by Duke Health physicians, appearing online June 8 in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that DCD hearts were equivalent to hearts procured through the current standard of care.
U-M Health performs its first heart transplant after cardiac death
Transplant surgeons at the University of Michigan Health completed the health system’s first heart transplant using a donation after circulatory death, or DCD, heart. DCD transplants increased 68% in 2022.
The Medical Minute: Six organ donation facts knock down six myths
More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are awaiting new organs. Many won’t live long enough to get them. The new chief of transplant at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center debunks the myths that get between donors and recipients.
Today’s Pediatric Heart Transplantations Involve Sicker Children, but Have Better Outcomes
A study of 323 pediatric heart transplants over 36 years at the University of Florida found that in recent years, more infants with serious congenital heart disease were offered heart transplants, but they had improved outcomes compared to patients in previous decades.
Bridging a Neonate With a Single Ventricle to Heart Transplant
In a rare and high-risk procedure, a 1-month-old baby became the first patient with single-ventricle heart disease to receive a ventricular assist device (VAD) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Latest Ochsner Health Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Data Shows Superior Outcomes for the Region
Hearing that a child needs heart surgery can be overwhelming. Fortunately, at Ochsner Health and Ochsner Hospital for Children, patients and their families are in expert hands. Recent pediatric outcomes for congenital heart patients show the hospital system’s highly specialized surgeons performed significantly better than others in the region — even when caring for the most complex cases. For the fifth year in a row, Ochsner’s surgical outcomes also continued to exceed national averages.
Smidt Heart Institute Experts to Lead Training Sessions at Society of Thoracic Surgeons Conference
Cardiothoracic surgeons and investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai bring their leading-edge expertise in heart and lung surgery to the 59th Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), Jan. 21-23, 2023, in San Diego.
UChicago Medicine performs 66 heart transplants in 2022, sets new state record for 2nd consecutive year
With the successful completion of back-to-back Christmas heart transplants, the University of Chicago Medicine set a new heart transplantation record for the state of Illinois, surpassing its own previous high-water mark for heart transplants. The Hyde Park-based academic health system has performed 66 heart transplants so far in 2022, surpassing last year’s record of 61.
Most heart transplant centers’ websites get failing grade when it comes to clear, accessible information
In a University of Michigan-led study, researchers found that most websites for heart transplant centers in the United States are difficult to understand, with more than 40% lacking information in languages other than English.
UChicago Medicine’s heart transplant program makes history again, with best survival rates and wait times ever recorded
The University of Chicago Medicine’s heart transplant program is making history once again. The program’s transplant survival rates and transplant wait times are not only the best in the country, but they’re the best in the history of heart transplantation, according to an analysis of Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) data.
Prominent Cardiac Surgeons Join UCSF’s Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center
UC San Francisco’s Cardiovascular team is welcoming two highly regarded cardiac surgeons to its renowned program. The specialists will join the newly formed Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center (AHF CCC).
Penn State College of Medicine receives $3 million for artificial heart research
Development of an implantable artificial heart that operates wirelessly and reliably for 10 years is the goal of an ongoing Penn State College of Medicine project.
Mount Sinai Cardiologist Leads Effort to Outline Guidance for Management of Heart Failure Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic
New scientific statement aims to establish more streamlined care to improve outcomes in this high-risk group
‘Heart in a Box’ Expands Transplant Opportunities
Dominic Emerson, MD, and Pedro Catarino, MD, both transplant surgeons with the Smidt Heart Institute, know how to be spontaneous. At any given moment, they can get the call that a donor heart or lungs are available, requiring them to quickly board a private aircraft to procure the vital organs.
Reverse-order heart-liver transplant helps prevent rejection for highly sensitized patients
Patients with high levels of antibodies face major challenges getting a transplant. These highly sensitized patients have a higher risk of death while waiting for suitable organs. But there is new hope for highly sensitized patients in need of a combined heart and liver transplant, thanks to an innovative surgical approach at Mayo Clinic.
Amid pandemic, Hershey Medical Center earns high marks nationally for heart transplant, LVAD
Two January 2021 reports show that survival rates for heart transplant and LVAD implant surgeries at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center rank among the nation’s best.
Despite Pandemic, 2020 Brought Increase in Heart Transplants
When Shari Baugh, 61, woke up on her birthday last October, she had two new reasons to be grateful for another trip around the sun: the healthy heart and kidney she had just received from Cedars-Sinai transplant surgeons.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Now Leads World in Heart Transplantation
Vanderbilt University Medical Center performed more heart transplants in 2020 than any other center in the world — 124 adult hearts, 23 pediatric hearts and VUMC’s first heart-lung transplant since 2006.
Does the New Heart Transplant Allocation Policy Encourage Gaming by Providers?
A new national policy was created to make determining who receives a heart transplant more fair. But new data shows it changed some practice patterns, too.
Election Day at Cedars-Sinai
Just days after receiving a new heart, Moore was excited to find out he won’t miss the opportunity to vote because he can cast his ballot from his hospital bed.
Does the New Heart Transplant Allocation Policy Encourage Gaming by Providers?
A new national policy was created to make determining who receives a heart transplant more fair. But new data shows it changed some practice patterns, too.
Penn Researchers Receive Grant to Use AI to Improve Heart Transplant Outcomes
Researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania were awarded a $3.2 million grant from the NIH to enhance research for improving heart transplant outcomes for patients. The four-year grant will fund a project exploring the use of AI-driven analysis to determine the likelihood of cardiac patients accepting or rejecting a new heart.
UC San Diego Health Revives Non-Beating Donor Heart for Successful Transplantation
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital on the West Coast to perform heart transplant surgery from a donor after circulatory death using a new portable organ care system. The investigational procedure could significantly decrease transplant waiting list times and improve patient outcomes.
New Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplant Program Launches at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone
NYU Langone Transplant Institute and Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital launch a new Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplant Program, expanding regional access to specialized care for children with complex cardiac needs
Double Surgery Improves Chances for Heart Transplant in Patients with Obesity
Pairing bariatric surgery with LVAD heart surgery may be an effective bridge to heart transplant for obese patients.
Pinney named co-director of UChicago Medicine Heart & Vascular Center
Cardiologist and heart failure expert Sean Pinney, MD, has been named co-director of the Heart & Vascular Center and director of the Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at the University of Chicago Medicine.
13 Patients Receive New Hearts During COVID-19 Pandemic
While some hospitals paused or reduced organ transplants, MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center performed a record number of heart transplants during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between March and May, 13 patients received new hearts–-more than double MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute’s typical volumes.
Racial, Gender Disparities Observed in Heart Transplant Recipients with COVID-19 Infection
Researchers suggest focusing on disparities to help identify which patients with a heart transplant may be at higher risk for a worse course of COVID-19 infection.
Cedars-Sinai Volunteer Delivers Hugs and Crocheted Hearts
Susan Nicholson is known simply as “the heart lady,” and not just on Valentine’s Day. Since 2013 she has been making and delivering about 50 hand-crocheted hearts each week to people who need a little “lift” — especially heart transplant patients. Over the past 7 years, she has crocheted and gifted an estimated 18,000+ hearts.
VUMC tops in nation for number of heart transplants performed last year
Vanderbilt University Medical Center tied for first place as the busiest heart transplant program by volume in the United States in 2019.
Recent US Pediatric Heart Transplant Waitlist Policy Change Falls Short of Intended Benefits
In March 2016, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network revised its criteria for prioritizing children awaiting heart transplantation in the U.S. with the intention of reducing the number of deaths on the waitlist, but a new study suggests unintended consequences.