Welcome to 2024! The JHLT Digital Media Editors kick off the new year with a look back at the best of the best from 2023 – specifically, a few of the guidelines and consensus statements from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation that appeared in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation this past year.

Digital Media Editor David Schibilsky, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Freiburg, Germany, hosts this episode.

First, Digital Media Editor Marty Tam, MD, reviews the updated Heart Transplantation guidelines, published in JHLT at the start of 2023. What’s changed in the decade plus since the 2010 guidelines were published? For starters, there’s more than 200 new or updated recommendations in this document, and Dr. Tam walks you through some of the highlights.

Next, Digital Media Editor Erika Lease, MD, shares the new reproductive health guidelines for transplant patients—something that’s relevant to just about everyone working in the cardiothoracic transplantation space. Dr. Lease steps through this much-needed consensus statement and some of its key takeaways.

Finally, Dr. Schibilsky joins his fellow Digital Media Editor Van-Khue Ton, MD, for a discussion about the MCS guidelines, another 10 year update on a massive—and massively important—document. Drs. Schibilsky and Ton share their favorite parts of the guideline, and do a little imagining about what might be present in the next major update for MCS.

Follow along at www.jhltonline.org/current, or check out all of the ISHLT’s Standards and Guidelines documents at https://ishlt.org/publications-resources/professional-resources/standards-guidelines.

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