Episode 52: State of the art review on aortic Insufficiency in durable LVADs
JHLT: The Podcast
On the second November episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors continue MCS-month with a paper from the November issue of JHLT, entitled “” First author Diyar Saeed, MD, PhD, of the Heart Center Niderrhein, and senior author Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS, of Henry Ford Hospitals both join the podcast. You’ll hear about: Why LVAD patients develop new and progressive aortic regurgitation—and how contemporary devices may differ Associated hemodynamic events Intraoperative surgical techniques Slowing the progression of the condition and monitoring it post-op Early...
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Episode 51: Can you be pragmatic about tMCS in Acute RV Failure?
JHLT: The Podcast
On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors have three expert guests to discuss their paper, “.” You’ll hear from first author Anthony Carnicelli, MD, from the Medical University of South Carolina; Alexander Bernhardt, MD, from the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf; and senior author Manreet Kanwar, MD, of the Cardiovascular Institute at Allegheny Health Network. The episode explores: Parameters that influence deciding when to escalate RV support Determining which device is right for each patient Evaluating a patient for the correct anticoagulants Device-related...
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Episode 50: Age matching lung donors and recipients in Europe
JHLT: The Podcast
On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors discuss a paper from the October issue of JHLT, entitled “Donor to recipient age matching in lung transplantation: A European experience.” Senior author Andrew Fisher, FRCP, PhD joins the podcast to discuss the paper. You’ll hear about: European practices in lung transplantation and the donor population Main findings and takeaways How age disparities in donor matching affect outcomes Extended criteria for older donors For the latest studies from JHLT, visit , or, if you’re an ISHLT member, access your Journal...
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Episode 49: The Evaluation and Care of Cardiac Transplant Candidates
JHLT: The Podcast
On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors discuss a new guidelines document from the ISHLT entitled “” The lead co-authors of the document—Yael Peled, MD, and Anique Ducharme, MD, MSc—are on the podcast to discuss the document. You’ll hear about: Challenges in drafting such an overarching document Highlights for clinicians Major changes in the document since the last version How changes in durable and temporary MCS affect use of the document For the latest studies from JHLT, visit , or, if you’re an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at . Join...
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Episode 48: A Tribute to Daniel R Goldstein
JHLT: The Podcast
This month, JHLT: The Podcast reissues our September 2023 tribute to former Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Daniel R. Goldstein. Dr. Goldstein stepped down from his role for health reasons in July 2023; he had been diagnosed with an advanced salivary gland malignancy and felt he would be unable to continue serving JHLT and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) to his characteristically demanding standard. Sadly, Dr. Goldstein died on 21 May, 2024, at the age of 56, leaving behind his wife, 2 children, an extended family, and a larger universe of colleagues, collaborators,...
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Episode 47: An Interview with JHLT EIC Joe Rogers
JHLT: The Podcast
In this special episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors connect with Joseph Rogers, MD, the new Editor-in-Chief of JHLT. In the conversation, Dr. Rogers shares more about his vision for the Journal, how he plans to tackle the challenges and opportunities facing the publication, and a little about his life both inside and outside of medicine. In addition to being the new Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Rogers is the President and CEO of the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, a past president of the ISHLT, and a prolific contributor to the field of heart and lung transplantation. For the...
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Episode 46: August 2024
JHLT: The Podcast
On the second August episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors discuss a paper from the August issue of JHLT, entitled “A modular simulation framework for organ allocation.”The episode is hosted by Digital Media Editor Erika Lease, MD, FCCP, a transplant pulmonologist from the University of Washington. The guests for this episode are first author Johnie Rose, MD, PhD, of the Center for Community Health Integration at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and lead author Maryam Valapour, MD, MPP, of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at the Cleveland...
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Episode 45: August 2024
JHLT: The Podcast
On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the JHLT Digital Media Editors discuss a brand new consensus document from the ISHLT entitled “Strategies to Prevent Hemocompatibility Related Adverse Events in Patients with a Durable, Continuous-Flow Ventricular Assist Device.” The episode is hosted by Digital Media Editor Erika Lease, MD, FCCP, a transplant pulmonologist from the University of Washington. The consensus document’s lead author, Ian Hollis, PharmD, a heart failure pharmacist and Associate Professor from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, joins the podcast to...
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Episode 44: July 2024
JHLT: The Podcast
On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the JHLT Digital Media Editors explore two studies from the July issue of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Digital Media Editor Marty Tam, MD, a transplant cardiologist from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, hosts this episode. First, Dr. Tam and Digital Media Editor Erika Lease, MD, FCCP, interview their first guest, Daniel Calabrese, MD, first author on the study “.” The study’s authors sought to tackle challenges behind early detection of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) by identifying biomarkers associated...
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Episode 43: June 2024
JHLT: The Podcast
On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the JHLT Digital Media Editors explore two studies from the June issue of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Digital Media Editor Van-Khue Ton, MD, a transplant cardiologist from Massachusetts General Hospital, hosts this episode. First, Dr. Ton and Digital Media Editor Marty Tam, MD, interview their first guests, first author Matthew Carey, MD, MBA, and senior author Justin Fried, MD, both of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City, on their study “.” This retrospective study of all patients receiving a...
info_outlineThe JHLT Digital Media Editors explore two manuscripts from the July issue of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation—one on heart transplantation and one on lung transplantation. Digital Media Editor Marty C. Tam, MD, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, hosts this episode.
First, hear from co-first author Kevin Chen, MD, on his team’s study “Donation after circulatory death heart procurement strategy impacts utilization and outcomes of concurrently procured abdominal organs,” which comes from Cedars-Sinai. The study looks into the results of DCD organ donation depending on the technique used at procurement, mainly comparing ex-situ normothermic organ perfusion with thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion (TA-NRP).
Digital Media Editors David Schibilsky, MD, and Van-Khue Ton, MD, have questions on the relationship between DCD liver and kidney procurement and heart procurement strategies, why TA-NRP livers and kidneys might differ, and the lower incidence of delayed graft function in DCD kidney transplants with TA-NRP. Dr. Chen also shares some thoughts about how this work might be incorporated into clinical practice.
Next, the editors welcome first author Jonathan P. Singer, MD, MS, from UCSF, to discuss the paper “Development of the Lung Transplant Frailty Scale (LT-FS).” Based on previous work, Dr. Singer and his colleagues set out to develop a novel frailty scale specifically for lung transplant candidates with improved performance characteristics over other frailty scales. The authors developed three lung transplant frailty measures and compared the construct and predictive validity to the existing short physical performance battery (SPPB) and the fried frailty phenotype (FFP). Their LT-FS models exhibited superior construct and predictive validity to these measures—and the addition of muscle mass and biomarkers further improved the model’s performance.
Digital Media Editor Erika Lease, MD, digs in with Dr. Singer on the main findings of the study. What’s unique about patients with advanced lung disease that makes them need a more specific frailty scale? How does the LT-FS outshine prior models? And what are the barriers to implementing a new model like this one in a transplant center?
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