Current Technological Advancement and Future Directions in the Field of Heart Transplant Surgery
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 211
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heart transplant; lung transplant; mechanical circulatory support; valvular and coronary artery disease
Interests: cardiothoracic surgery, especially for esophageal cancer; lung cancer and mesothelioma; coronary artery bypass graft; radial artery harvest; cardiac tumors; minimally invasive surgery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heart transplantation is the gold standard for long-term survival in patients with end-stage heart failure. Since the era of heart transplantation was ushered by Christian Bernard in South Africa in 1967, the field has rapidly evolved. Before the introduction of the brain death concept by Harvard Medical School in 1968, Christian Bernard performed a series of heart transplants in the setting of donation after circulatory death. Innovative techniques and technological advances have been utilized to improve surgery outcomes and boost the pool of donor hearts, as well as to reduce the mortality of patients on transplant waiting lists.
In the last two decades, donation after circulatory death has re-emerged as a promising solution to organ shortage and helped to improve outcomes. Ex vivo heart perfusion technology and the thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion technique have made heart recovery feasible and sustainable in the context of donation after circulatory death.
The goal of this Special Issue is to highlight and discuss these technological advancements and innovative techniques and potential future directions in the field of heart transplant surgery in depth.
Dr. Magdy M El-Sayed Ahmed
Dr. Mohamed Rahouma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heart transplantation
- donation after circulatory death
- ex vivo heart perfusion
- thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion
- end-stage heart failure
- heart recovery
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