Usefulness Questioned for Transplant Center Report Cards Ratings look like noise due to volatile score changes every half year Apr 11, 2024
Aspirin for Fatty Liver; Meds for Self-Managed Abortion Also in TTHealthWatch: diagnosing Parkinson's with a skin biopsy Mar 30, 2024 podcast
Do Race, Sex Factor Into Who Has Donor Heart Offers Turned Down by Transplant Docs? Black people, men receive more offers before one is accepted Mar 25, 2024
NBA Champion, 'Survivor' Contestant Receives Heart Transplant Scot Pollard "feeling great" following surgery, his wife says Feb 23, 2024
Do Organ Transplants Cause Personality Changes? Anecdotal evidence suggests a real possibility, but more research is needed Feb 22, 2024
TAVR Pioneer Dies; Allograft Rejection Criteria Need Work; Overeating Protein & CVD Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Feb 20, 2024
Reversing Anticoagulation in Hemorrhagic Stroke; E-Cigs for Smoking Cessation Also in TTHealthWatch: an online program for long COVID Feb 17, 2024 podcast
Risk Score Proposed to Anchor Forthcoming Donor Heart Allocation Rules Current six-tier system on the outs due to excessive manipulation Feb 13, 2024
Former NBA Player, 'Survivor' Contestant Waits in Hospital for Heart Transplant But few donors can provide a match for his extra-large body Feb 09, 2024
Cardiology Ups Diversity; Universal CVD Risk Predictor; 93-Year-Old Cardiologist Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Jan 30, 2024
Donated Heart Valves Still Growing a Year After World's 1st Partial Heart Transplant Child and transplanted tissue together remain in good condition per case report Jan 02, 2024
Apple Halts Watch Sales; FDA Database May Miss Red Flags; Babies' Tongues Cut Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 51˶ staff Dec 19, 2023
Transplant Advocates Sound Alarm Over Proposed Medicare Test Coverage Policy Proposed rules would decrease early detection of organ rejection, they say Dec 06, 2023
Rude Awakening on Trying to Keep Donor Hearts Usable With Common Hormone Infusions Long-standing practice of levothyroxine supplementation fails in randomized trial Nov 30, 2023
Alleged Stroke Trial Misconduct; Ultrasound Tx for Severe AS; Farxiga's eGFR Drops Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Nov 15, 2023
Another Xenotransplant Death; Many Unaware of HF Diagnosis; Full-Body TAVR Protector Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Nov 07, 2023
Coronary Disease That Comes With a Donor Heart Does Carry Risk Study shows cardiovascular consequences but not overall mortality impact Aug 22, 2023
Abortion Bans May Lead to More Neonatal Cardiac Defects, Model Suggests Researchers used theoretical modeling based on real proposed legislation Aug 07, 2023
Experts Demand Overhaul of Organ Transplant System During Senate Hearing Patient representative has "zero confidence" in change if UNOS remains involved Jul 21, 2023
Economical Epoprostenol Good Enough After Major Cardiac Surgery Randomized trial compared two inhaled pulmonary vasodilators Jul 06, 2023
Trial Affirms Safety of Circulatory-Death Heart Transplants 6-month results reported for perfusion-tested hearts outside of normal brain-death donation route Jun 08, 2023
Farxiga's Decongestion Flop; Benefit of Strong Legs; 2,500-Mile Heart Transport Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine May 23, 2023
Multimodal Evaluations May Flag Cardiac Allograft Problems Earlier Study underscores importance of anatomical, physiological parameters May 11, 2023
Farxiga OK'd for All EF; Older Donor Hearts; Cardiologist Arrested for Deaths Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine May 09, 2023
Monopoly Be Gone: A New Chapter in U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation A recent announcement from HHS has the power to transform our deeply flawed system Apr 04, 2023
Biden Administration Announces Plan to Overhaul the Organ Transplant System Steps include making contracting more competitive and publishing donation data Mar 22, 2023
Vitamin B3 Doesn't Cut Skin Cancer Risk After Organ Transplant Randomized study finds no benefit with 12 months of nicotinamide versus placebo Mar 01, 2023
When Surgeons Clamp Down on Opioids After Cardiac Operations Pain control feasible even when dropping to zero opioids Jan 22, 2023
After Major Motorcycle Rallies, More Organs Available for Donation Study estimated 21% more organ donors, 26% more transplant recipients per day during rallies Nov 28, 2022
The Search Is On for Another Xeno Heart Transplant Recipient Transplant surgeons discuss testing the concept in more humans Oct 04, 2022
UNOS to Revamp Heart Allocation Rules to Rein in Transplant Waitlist Tricks It may be goodbye to priority tiers, hello to points-based ranking system in coming years Oct 03, 2022
Growing Calls to Marry HF Specialists With Cardiac Critical Care Cardiac ICU staffing issues require a multidisciplinary team approach, some say Oct 02, 2022
No Brain Death? No Problem. New Organ Transplant Protocol Stirs Debate. Is it ethical to pull the plug in patients who aren't brain dead, then restart their hearts? Sep 28, 2022
Donation After Circulatory Death Offers Opportunity to Boost Organ Pool A more controversial approach to heart harvesting, meanwhile, is raising ethical qualms Apr 22, 2022
Stroke While on LVAD No Barrier to Successful Heart Transplant It doesn't help, for sure, but it doesn't seem to hurt greatly either Apr 05, 2022
Donor Hearts Can Withstand Longer Ischemic Times Over 4 hours not inherently more dangerous, one group finds Jan 31, 2022
AHA Abstract Under Fire; Cardiology Bullies; An Acupuncture Needle Where?! Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Dec 07, 2021
The Right Ventricle Still Matters in LVAD Patients Right heart failure signaled trouble ahead in the Intermacs registry Nov 29, 2021
Ethics Consult: Give New Heart to Woman on Death Row? MD/JD Weighs In You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion Oct 29, 2021
