Vasoplegia: dreaded LVAD explant complication post tx - 4 proposed mechanisms Lauren K. Truby #ISHLT2024. 👏💪Can we modify risk?Women in Heart Transplantation and MCS 🩸gdmt 🩸right heart dysfunction 🩸change vascular tone 2/2 cont flow 🩸adaptive &innate immune response

1/. Predicting who can have favorable outcome after VAD weaning for cardiac recovery: 10-year freedom from VAD/Tx/death! Findings from the VAD WEAN Cardiac Recovery Registry presented at #ISHLT2024

This provides a comprehensive overview of diagnosis, treatment options & outcomes of CS, including challenges in diagnosing & the importance of a multidisciplinary approach. ✍🏽 Richard Cheng Michelle Kittleson MD PhD Craig Beavers, PharmD, FACC, FAHA, FCCP, BCCP,CACP Ron Blankstein Paco E. Bravo, MD Nisha Gilotra @rhythmkri

Contemporary American and European heart failure guidelines jacc.org/doi/abs/10.101… JACC Journals

🚨Stunning!🚨 REVERSAL in the decline of heart failure ☠️ in the US 1999-2021 1999-2005 ⬇️ ☠️ 2005-2012 ⬇️ ☠️ 2012-2019 ⬆️ ☠️ 2019-2021 ⬆️⬆️☠️ Age-adjusted HF related ☠️ rates higher in 2021 vs 1999! WT😱🆘 jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac… JAMA Cardiology Marat Fudim, MD MHS

A lot of us in academic medicine may need to present our work at conferences or give talks to large audiences. Things for which we never receive formative training in all our years in school. This thread is absolute gold! ⬇️

#TipsForNewDocs A good checklist when you exit a patient's room: -lights on/off? -TV on/off? -where's the tray table go? -door open/closed? "Leave it better than you found it" applies to inpatient rounding too! #kittlesonrules

Congratulations Rahul G Argula and colleagues on this critical study. Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something. Denise Sese Thenappan Thenappan Sam Friedman MUSC Health Molly Silkowski, DO MUSC Cardiology Fellowship Programs

So long as they’re not in shock, continue beta blockers even when admitted for decompensated HF!

Congratulations to our 2024 graduates in cardiology, electrophysiology and interventional cardiology. We are so proud of you and your accomplishments!! Excited to see where your careers take you.

Da Vinci described the heart in his notebooks as being "vortex oriented" Sound on

🔴Optimal Medical 💊 and Outcomes Among HFrEF👥 👉4582 in CHAMP-HF with available 2-year follow-up 📍50% had optimal therapy 👉👥 with optimal treatment were younger, had higher annual household income, and were enrolled from practices with dedicated HF clinics 👉👥 with optimal

1️⃣6️⃣ Articles❗️Temple Cardiology Fellowship Published Proceedings from WSPH Association #Pulmonary Hypertension 7th World Symposium 🇪🇸 Link 🔗: erj.ersjournals.com/cc/the-seventh…

🏥New to the CCU? Not sure how to manage temporary mechanical circulatory support? ⭐️Check out our new CardioNerds infographic on using TMCS in cardiogenic shock! Explore their mechanisms, management, and waveforms you need to know!

Excited to welcome the newest class of cardiology fellows to Ochsner Health in New Orleans! 🎉💙 Here’s to a journey of learning, growth, and advancing heart health together. Sammy Khatib Merrill Stewart #CardiologyFellowship #MatchDay2024”

New JACC Journals #JACCHF     Under/over sized 🫀 matches ➡️ Increased risk 1-year death or re transplant      #Echo Measured #LV mass vs. #PHM & Predicted LVM ▪️More accurate donor-recipient size matching   ▪️Could improve post #HT outcomes    doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf…

Inpatient Use of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy During Heart Failure Hospitalizations Among Community-Based Health Systems Inpatient GDMT use in a national analysis of HF hospitalizations was lower than reported in quality improvement registries jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

Excited to share ⁦Mayo Clinic⁩ experience with #amyloid and🫀transplant 📌 Post tx survival #amyloid = non-amyloid pts 📌 ⬇️ wait times for #amyloid after allocation change 📌 ⬇️ multi- organ tx with TTR targeted therapies ⁦⁦Mayo Amyloid⁩ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ct…

Our new article explores the role of GLP‑1 receptor agonists in non‑diabetic HFpEF patients with obesity. Now available in Journal of Cardiology : sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#TipsForNewDocs I take care of pts in the hospital for wks-months awaiting heart transplant, so I try to make the stay tolerable: 1) no VS checks/diuretics/etc. 11 PM to 5 AM 2) OK to bring in food from home 3) ask about (and fix) constipation and insomnia #kittlesonrules