{"title":"The search continues: investigating potential biomarkers to predict cardiac allograft function from donation after circulatory death donors.","authors":"Yashutosh Joshi, Peter S Macdonald","doi":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.09.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2024.09.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142365492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elbert E Heng, Aravind Krishnan, Stefan Elde, Alyssa Garrison, Moeed Fawad, Chawannuch Ruaengsri, Yasuhiro Shudo, Brandon A Guenthart, Y Joseph Woo, John W MacArthur
{"title":"Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to thoracic multiorgan transplantation.","authors":"Elbert E Heng, Aravind Krishnan, Stefan Elde, Alyssa Garrison, Moeed Fawad, Chawannuch Ruaengsri, Yasuhiro Shudo, Brandon A Guenthart, Y Joseph Woo, John W MacArthur","doi":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.09.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2024.09.015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has emerged as a crucial tool in the care of patients with multiorgan failure, and is increasingly utilized as a bridge to transplantation. While data on ECMO as a bridge to isolated heart and lung transplantation have been described, our emerging experience with ECMO as a bridge to thoracic multiorgan transplantation is not yet well understood. This study aims to investigate temporal trends, utilization, and outcomes in ECMO as a bridge to thoracic multiorgan transplantation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The United Network for Organ Sharing database was used to identify adult patients undergoing thoracic multiorgan transplantation between 1987 and 2022. Exclusion criteria were recipient age <18 and bridging with other mechanical circulatory support including ventricular assist device (VAD) and intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP). Survival analysis was performed to compare outcomes between patients bridged to transplantation with ECMO and those who were not bridged.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 3,927 patients undergoing thoracic multiorgan transplantation, a total of 203 (5.2%) patients received ECMO as a bridge to transplantation. Among ECMO recipients, patients were most commonly bridged to heart-lung (45.8%), followed by heart-kidney (34.5%), and lung-kidney transplantation (11.8%). At a median follow-up of 35.5 months, unadjusted survival among patients bridged with ECMO was decreased versus multiorgan transplant recipients who were not bridged (p<0.001). With adjusted multivariable Cox regression, ECMO was independently associated with an elevated risk of mortality following multiorgan transplantation (HR 1.56 [1.21-2.02], p<0.01). Among patients surviving past 30 days following transplantation, conditional long-term survival was similar between those bridged with ECMO and those not bridged (p = 0.82).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>ECMO is increasingly utilized as a bridge to thoracic multiorgan transplantation, and is associated with increased 30 day mortality and decreased long-term survival. In select patients surviving to 30 days following transplantation, similar long-term survival is seen between patients bridged with ECMO and those not bridged.</p>","PeriodicalId":15900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142348135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anthony P Carnicelli, Jennifer Cowger, Ryan J Tedford, Manreet Kanwar
{"title":"Authors' Response to Comment and Opinion.","authors":"Anthony P Carnicelli, Jennifer Cowger, Ryan J Tedford, Manreet Kanwar","doi":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.09.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2024.09.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142348134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vintage Vitality: Embracing Older Donor Lungs for Transplants.","authors":"Sandra Lindstedt, Michael Perch, Anna Niroomand","doi":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.09.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2024.09.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142289168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hosam F Ahmed, Don Hayes, Marco Ricci, Clifford Chin, David L S Morales
{"title":"Expanding the Donor Pool: Sequential Double Lung then Heart Transplant Using Ex-Vivo Normothermic Perfusion.","authors":"Hosam F Ahmed, Don Hayes, Marco Ricci, Clifford Chin, David L S Morales","doi":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.09.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.09.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142289167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara Sakowitz, Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar, Saad Mallick, Amulya Vadlakonda, Nikhil Chervu, Richard Shemin, Peyman Benharash
{"title":"Hospital volume does not mitigate the impact of area socioeconomic deprivation on heart transplantation outcomes.","authors":"Sara Sakowitz, Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar, Saad Mallick, Amulya Vadlakonda, Nikhil Chervu, Richard Shemin, Peyman Benharash","doi":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.08.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2024.08.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>While structural socioeconomic inequity has been linked with inferior health outcomes, some have postulated reduced access to high-quality care to be the mediator. We assessed whether treatment at high-volume centers (HVC) would mitigate the adverse impact of area deprivation on heart transplantation (HT) outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>All HT recipients ≥18 years were identified in the 2005-2022 Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation was assessed using the previously validated Area Deprivation Index. Recipients with scores in the highest quintile were considered Most Deprived (others: Less Deprived). Hospitals in the highest quartile by cumulative center volume (≥21 transplants/year) were classified as HVC. The primary outcome was post-transplant survival.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 38,022 HT recipients, 7,579 (20%) were considered Most Deprived. Following risk adjustment, Most Deprived demonstrated inferior survival at 3 (hazard ratio [HR] 1.14, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.06-1.21) and 5 years following transplantation (HR 1.13, CI 1.07-1.20). Similarly, Most Deprived faced greater graft failure at 3 (HR 1.14, CI 1.06-1.22) and 5 years (HR 1.13, CI 1.07-1.20). Evaluating patients transplanted at HVC, Most Deprived continued to face greater mortality at 3 (HR 1.10, CI 1.01-1.21) and 5 years (HR 1.10, CI 1.01-1.19). The interaction between Most Deprived status and care at HVC was not significant, such that transplantation at HVC did not ameliorate the survival disparity between Most and Less Deprived.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Area socioeconomic disadvantage is independently associated with inferior survival. Transplantation at HVC did not eliminate this inequity. Future efforts are needed to increase engagement with longitudinal follow-up care and address systemic root causes to improve outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":15900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142348136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The evolving epidemiology of systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary hypertension","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.06.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.06.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053249824017030/pdfft?md5=4510072b9a818d7f362f5a0c3a67e03c&pid=1-s2.0-S1053249824017030-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142164434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The spectrum of systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary hypertension: Insights from the ASPIRE registry","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>There are limited data assessing the spectrum of systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary hypertension (PH).</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Data for 912 systemic sclerosis patients assessed between 2000 and 2020 were retrieved from the Assessing the Spectrum of Pulmonary hypertension Identified at a REferral centre (ASPIRE) registry and classified based on 2022 European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society (ESC/ERS) guidelines and multimodality investigations.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Reduction in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) diagnostic threshold to >2<!--> <!-->WU resulted in a 19% increase in precapillary PH diagnoses. Patients with PVR ≤2<!--> <!-->WU had superior survival to PVR >2–3<!--> <!-->WU which was similar to PVR >3–4<!--> <!-->WU. Survival in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) was superior to PH associated with lung disease. However, patients with mild parenchymal disease on CT had similar characteristics and outcomes to patients without lung disease. Combined pre- and postcapillary PH had significantly poorer survival than isolated postcapillary PH. Patients with mean pulmonary arterial wedge pressure (PAWP) 13–15 mm Hg had similar haemodynamics and left atrial volumes to those with PAWP >15 mm Hg. Unclassified-PH had more frequently dilated left atria and higher PAWP than PAH. Although Unclassified-PH had a similar survival to No-PH, 36% were subsequently diagnosed with PAH or PH associated with left heart disease. The presence of 2–3 radiological signs of pulmonary veno-occlusive disease was noted in 7% of PAH patients and was associated with worse survival. Improvement in incremental shuttle walking distance of ≥30 m following initiation of PAH therapy was associated with superior survival. PAH patients diagnosed after 2011 had greater use of combination therapy and superior survival.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>A number of systemic sclerosis PH phenotypes can be recognized and characterized using haemodynamics, lung function and multimodality imaging.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053249824016991/pdfft?md5=65f4f63010c3132edb679b5bc63a65c4&pid=1-s2.0-S1053249824016991-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142164433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information for Readers","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S1053-2498(24)01817-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1053-2498(24)01817-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053249824018175/pdfft?md5=21d73ddcc2a7651ebdf5b66a34392b70&pid=1-s2.0-S1053249824018175-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142164431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iris Feng, Paul A Kurlansky, Yanling Zhao, Krushang Patel, Morgan K Moroi, Alice V Vinogradsky, Farhana Latif, Gabriel Sayer, Nir Uriel, Yoshifumi Naka, Koji Takeda
{"title":"Bridge to simultaneous heart-kidney transplantation via extracorporeal life support: National outcomes in the new heart allocation policy era.","authors":"Iris Feng, Paul A Kurlansky, Yanling Zhao, Krushang Patel, Morgan K Moroi, Alice V Vinogradsky, Farhana Latif, Gabriel Sayer, Nir Uriel, Yoshifumi Naka, Koji Takeda","doi":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.08.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.healun.2024.08.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Since United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) revised their heart allocation policy in 2018, usage of veno-arterial extracorporeal life support (VA-ECLS) has dramatically increased as a bridge to transplant. This study investigated outcomes of VA-ECLS patients bridged to simultaneous heart-kidney transplant (SHK) in the new policy era.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study included 774 adult patients from the UNOS database who received SHK between 10/18/18 and 12/31/21 and compared patients bridged to transplant on VA-ECLS (n = 50) with those not bridged (n = 724).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>At baseline, SHK recipients bridged from VA-ECLS were younger (50.5 vs 58.0 years, p = 0.007), had higher estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) at time of transplant (47.6 vs 30.1, p < 0.001), and spent fewer days on the waitlist (7.0 vs 33.5 days, p < 0.001). In the perioperative period, VA-ECLS was associated with higher rates of temporary dialysis (56.0% vs 28.0%, p < 0.001) but similar 2-year cumulative incidence of chronic dialysis (7.5% vs 5.4%, p = 0.800) and renal allograft failure (12.0% vs 8.1%, p = 0.500) compared to non-ECLS cohort. However, VA-ECLS patients had decreased survival to discharge (76.0% vs 92.7%, p < 0.001) and 2-year post-transplant survival (71.7% vs 83.0%, p = 0.004), as well as greater 2-year cumulative incidence of cardiac allograft failure (10.0% vs 2.7%, p = 0.002). Multivariable analyses found VA-ECLS at time of transplant to be independently associated with 2-year post-transplant mortality (HR [95% CI]: 3.40 [1.66-6.96], p = 0.001) and cardiac allograft failure (sub-distribution hazard ratio [SHR] [95% CI]: 8.51 [2.77-26.09], p < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Under the new allocation policy, patients bridged to SHK from VA-ECLS displayed greater early mortality and cardiac allograft failure but similar renal outcomes compared to non-ECLS counterparts.</p>","PeriodicalId":15900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142154308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}