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January 21, 2023January 19, 2023

Medicare Policy Change Could Increase Inequity in Heart Transplant Access, Study Finds

Patients seen at transplant centers had almost 80% higher odds to receive “bridge-to-transplant” designation

January 13, 2023 — A change to Medicare policy surrounding heart transplant may lead to increased inequities in access to transplant for patients with heart failure, a Michigan Medicine study finds.

When a patient has severe heart failure, both a heart transplant and left ventricular assist device, which is implanted to assist the heart in improving blood circulation throughout the body, can be lifesaving. While LVADs continue to improve, heart transplant remains the gold standard therapy for end-stage heart failure. Read more in Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC).

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

Testing for coronary heart disease before kidney transplant may not lower adverse outcomes

Testing for coronary heart disease within 12 months before kidney transplantation did not correlate with a change in death or myocardial infarction within 30 days after the transplant, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Therefore, researchers suggest that testing for coronary heart disease (CHD) may not reduce the risk of adverse outcomes after a transplant. Read more in Healio.

January 15, 2023January 12, 2023

The Gift of Life Is Multiplied Exponentially with Whole-Body Donation

When Alva Capuano was discovered unconscious in her living room, her husband, Richard, and then paramedics did everything possible to get her heart beating again. But by the time it did, her brain had experienced irreversible damage. Her family accepted that Alva, 64, was gone. Their sorrow fueled a determination to fulfill her last wish: As the recipient of a donated pancreas and kidney, Alva had hoped to become an organ donor herself.
Read the article from NYU Langone Health NewsHub.

January 12, 2023January 12, 2023

Medicare policy change could increase inequity in heart transplant access, study finds

Patients seen at transplant centers had almost 80% higher odds to receive “bridge-to-transplant” designation

A change to Medicare policy surrounding heart transplant may lead to increased inequities in access to transplant for patients with heart failure, a Michigan Medicine study finds.

January 8, 2023January 6, 2023

Fixing Heart Failure Workforce Issues: Baby Steps Start This Year

— Pay, curriculum changes proposed to attract more doctors

This spring, discussions on how to build a workforce that better meets the needs of the heart failure population will begin in earnest.

The alarming number of unfilled fellowship spots for advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology (AHFTC) each year shows that the field is not enticing new trainees, despite the growing clinical need and advances in therapeutics. Read more in MedPage Today.

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

Top cardiology news in 2022: Successful xenotransplants; statins vs. supplements; and more

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled a list of the most-read news of 2022 in cardiology.

Readers were most interested in a meta-analysis questioning the association between statin-induced LDL lowering and CV outcomes; firsts in xenotransplantation of genetically modified pig hearts; how moderate wine intake with meals may reduce type 2 diabetes risk; and more. Read the full story in Healio.

January 2, 2023December 28, 2022

New data, updated guidance ‘dramatically’ changing HF treatment landscape

Treatment of HF has evolved rapidly in recent years, with novel therapies and a fundamentally new treatment algorithm offering options for improved management of the disease across the full spectrum of ejection fraction. Read more from Healio.

December 31, 2022December 28, 2022

CVD remains leading cause of death globally

A multinational collaborative report of global disease trends and risk factors shows CVD remains the leading cause of death and hypertension remains the leading modifiable risk factor for premature CV death worldwide, researchers reported.
Read the full story in Healio.

December 30, 2022December 23, 2022

Syracuse grad advocates organ donation, therapy with book about heart transplant at age 12

When 12-year-old Emma Rothman woke up in the hospital, she was surrounded by strangers using unfamiliar phrases like “medically-induced coma” and “organ donation.”

It was a Monday in 2011, and she had been in her pediatrician’s office for a diagnosis test. Read the full story on Syracuse.com.

December 29, 2022December 23, 2022

FDA clears AI-guided device to diagnose HFpEF from a single echocardiogram

Ultromics announced its artificial intelligence-guided device for the diagnosis of HF with preserved ejection fraction via echocardiogram has received full marketing authorization from the FDA.

The device (EchoGo Heart Failure) was developed by Ultromics, a spin-out of the University of Oxford, in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, according to a press release issued by the company.
Read the full story in Healio.