Showing posts with label hearts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hearts. Show all posts
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Women in Thoracic Surgery,

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 The NYT reports on the second annual meeting of Women in Thoracic Surgery, a group for the less than 10 percent of heart and lung surgeons ...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Xenotransplantation in Humans: pig organs edge closer to being clinically kosher

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  It has long been the conventional wisdom in transplantation that xenotransplants--transplanting a kidney from a genetically modified pig ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Technology and the health care labor force--perfusionists

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 The evolving health care labor force provides a window on technology and employment.  There are now a substantial number of clinical perfus...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Pediatric Heart Transplants: rethinking the waitlist, by Power, Sweat...Almond et al.

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 Here's a paper on the design of the waitlist for pediatric heart transplants.  It's accompanied by an editorial in the journal, and...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Kurt Sweat defends his dissertation

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Kurt Sweat defended his dissertation this week. As you can see in the picture below, we celebrated with the traditional toast, but instead ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Global pacemaker retransplantation

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  There are innovative approaches to global health care.  Here is one, that involves reusing pacemakers recovered from deceased donors and r...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Cross-border transplantation between China and Hong Kong

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 Here are two recent reports of the first cross-border transplant between China proper and Hong Kong. From the Global Times: First organ don...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

First pig-to-human heart transplant (and some background on the trials with non human primates)

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 Xenotransplants, of pig organs into humans, may be closer than I thought. A dramatic step was taken last Friday when a pig heart was succes...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Gaming organ allocation: Heart failure treatment responds to changes in the priority rules for heart transplants

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Recent changes in the allocation of deceased donor hearts for transplantation have focused on what kinds of mechanical interventions a pati...