This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Alexis Shafii, professor of surgery and surgical director of heart transplantation at The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, about the first in-human BiVACOR total artificial heart implantation.
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Heart Transplant
September 18, 2025
September 11, 2025
This article explores emerging innovations aimed at addressing the critical challenges of organ transplantation, particularly organ scarcity, rejection, and the burden of lifelong immunosuppression.
August 21, 2025
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Kenneth Liao about performing the world’s first adult robotic heart surgery in the United States using a subxiphoid approach.
August 21, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Kenneth Liao, professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support at Baylor College of Medicine, about performing the world’s first adult robotic heart surgery in the United States using a subxiphoid approach.
August 14, 2025
In this outstanding interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Todd Rosengart about his team performing the world’s first adult robotic heart surgery in the United States.
August 8, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Zaid Abu-Mowis, a medical student at the University of Florida College of Medicine, presented on “Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Pediatric Heart Transplantation: A Comparison of Two ERAS.”
August 7, 2025
This study examines the impact of the 2018 United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) heart transplant allocation criteria change on posttransplant stroke rates.
July 16, 2025
Increasing demand for donor hearts in cardiac transplantation has spurred interest in xenotransplantation aided by advancements in immunosuppression and genetic engineering. Clinical trials of genetically modified pig hearts have seen two patients survive 40 and 60 days before graft failure.
July 16, 2025
This recently published consensus statement, endorsed by multiple transplant societies including the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), aims to address the existing gaps in consensus regarding the role of circulating antibodies and their relationship to antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation.
June 26, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. David Kalfa, the incoming Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, about allogenic mitral valve transplants.