Scientific progress in heart and lung failure, mechanical circulatory support, and transplantation: highlights from the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.
At the Thirty-third Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (Montréal, Quebec, Canada), a joint session between the Junior Faculty Council members and the editorial consultants of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation took place to summarize recently published impacting publications in the Journal. The topics reviewed were mechanical circulatory support, heart transplantation, lung transplantation, pulmonary hypertension and pediatrics. The cooperative presentations has been formulated into the present report.
Division of Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. Electronic address: kshah@mcvh-vcu.edu.
Keyur B
KB
Shah
Division of Heart and Lungs, Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Johanna M
JM
Kwakkel-van Erp
Barnabas Health Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey.
Christina
C
Migliore
Division of Congenital Heart Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Yishay
Y
Orr
Institute of Transplantation, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Paul A
PA
Corris
The Lung Transplant Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Allan R
AR
Glanville
Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
Mark S
MS
Slaughter
Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Lori J
LJ
West
Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Mandeep R
MR
Mehra
D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation / Q000379:methods*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D010372:Pediatrics; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy*
INTERMACS; heart transplantation; lung transplantation; mechanical circulatory support; pediatric; pulmonary hypertension