Drs Michelle Kittleson and James Fang cap off the podcast series by discussing difficult cardiac transplantation decision points, including LVADs and the latest innovations in cardiac transplantation.

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Resources

Heart Failure https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/163062-overview

Heart Transplantation https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/429816-overview

Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, FHFSA https://hfsa.org/lynne-warner-stevenson-md-fhfsa

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Evaluation for Heart Transplantation and LVAD Implantation https://njadvancedheartfailure.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Zucker-Heart-Transplantation-and-LVAD-Indications.pdf

Cardiorenal Syndrome: Classification, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment Strategies: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30852913/

Left Ventricular Assist Devices https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499841/

The Burden of Haemocompatibility With Left Ventricular Assist Systems: A Complex Weave https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28329374/

Guidance and Policy Clarifications Addressing Adult Heart Allocation Policy https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/media/3931/guidance_policy_clarifications_address_adult_heart_allocation_policy.pdf

Heart Transplantation From Donation After Circulatory Determined Death https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29492385/

Destination Therapy With Left Ventricular Assist Devices in Non-Transplant Centres: The Time Is Right https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32419850/

Frailty and the Selection of Patients for Destination Therapy Left Ventricular Assist Device https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22438521/

Heart Transplant Advances: Ex Vivo Organ-Preservation Systems https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36004090/

First Clinical Experience With the Novel Cold Storage Sherpapak™ System for Donor Heart Transportation https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33447411/

Is the Organ Care System (OCS) Still the First Choice With Emerging New Strategies for Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) in Heart Transplant? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9229932/