📢 A NEW Summary of the #ISHLTConsensusConference on Graft Dysfunction within the First 72 hours after #HeartTx is now available. 📖💡🫀 This document is a 10-year update summarizing the growing understanding of #PGD. View the top 🔟 takeaways ⤵️ and read the publication at 🔗 bit.ly/40uZD5d

ISHLT Endorses the 2026 Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics Conference The ISHLT has endorsed the 2026 Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics Conference taking place 2-4 March at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport in Boston, MA USA.

The #ISHLT-endorsed 2026 Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics Conference is taking place next month in Boston. 🫀 Attend to discover the latest heart failure innovations: 🔗 bit.ly/4rudUem

#THT2026 #HeartTx #HeartFailure @crfheart.bsky.social

🚨 Submit your papers on primary graft dysfunction (#PGD) to #JHLT. 🫀🫁 Submissions will be accepted until 📆 28 February: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4r6vuog

#CallforPapers #HeartTx #LungTx #TransplantSky #MedSky

JHLT The Podcast: Challenges and Opportunities in DCD Heart Transplantation Editors discuss the paper, “Barriers and opportunities in donation after circulatory death heart transplantation,” with first author Katherine G. Phillips and co-author Brian Wayda.

Are we making the most of #DCD #HeartTx?

Today on #JHLTThePodcast, we explore barriers and opportunities in heart transplant using donation after circulatory death with Katherine G. Phillips, MD, and Brian Wayda, MD, of NYU Langone Health.
#cardiosky #transplantsky

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📢 It's the FINAL WEEK to submit applications to 4️⃣ #ISHLTResearchGrants.⠀⠀
⏰ Submit by 20 January at 11:59 p.m. ET / 21 January at 03:59 UTC⠀⠀
📖 Learn more and apply at 🔗 https://bit.ly/4p6WX8f

#ECPImmunmodulation #PedsTx #HeartTx #LungTx #research #MedSky #TransplantSky

LAST CALL: Submit your papers on device therapies for advanced #HeartDisease & #LungDisease to @TheJHLT by Tuesday, 30 December. 🫀🫁 🔗: https://bit.ly/48RJQBk

#CallforPapers #HeartTx #LungTx #MedSky #TransplantSky

Calling all researchers 📣 Get support for your research on #MolecularBiomarkers + the use of #AI for #HeartTx candidates/recipients by applying to this #ISHLTResearchGrant, supported by CareDx, Inc.
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✍️📅 Submit your application by 20 January. Get more information & apply at 🔗 bit.ly/49gR2Is

The second slide from the November 2025 issue of Journal Watch, titled "Tolerability and clinical efficacy of letermovir for primary cytomegalovirus prophylaxis after heart transplantation" For a more screenreader friendly version, the full issue PDF is at https://www.ishlt.org/docs/default-source/journal-watch/202511_journalwatch_id_nov2025.pdf.

On #ISHLTJournalWatch this month, Brennan Collis reviews a paper from @jhlt.bsky.social on the clinical efficacy and tolerability of #letermovir for #CMV prophylaxis after #HeartTx.

#CardioSky #TransplantSky #IDsky #MedSky

Interested in researching #innovations for improving outcomes for #pediatric #HeartTx recipients? 🚼🔎 Apply to the #ISHLT + #EnduringHearts Pediatric Heart Transplantation Innovation Challenge Grant.
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✍️📅 Submit your application by 20 January. Get more information at 🔗 https://bit.ly/3LEYvIh

📣 APPLY NOW: ISHLT is accepting applications for 4️⃣ #ISHLTResearchGrants related to:
🫀🫁 #ECPimmunomodulation in #CardiothoracicTransplantation
🧒 Innovations in #pediatric #HeartTx
🤖 Using molecular #biomarkers + #AI in #HeartTx
💡 Support for trainee #researchers

✍️ Get the details at 🔗 bit.ly/4p6WX8f

Early Initiation of PSCK9 inhibition with alirocumab ➕ statin therapy safely lowered LDL-C in #Hearttx patients, but didn’t ⬇️ coronary artery plaque progression, based on CAVIAR findings presented at #AHA25.

Read more: https://bit.ly/444cwVZ

#HeartFailure #CardioSky #MedSky

The #ISHLT-endorsed 2025 Middle East Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Conference is taking place next week in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Join global cardiologists to connect, learn, & empower each other. 🫀 Learn more about the event: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3TA1UsF #MEAHFT2025 #HeartTx #HeartFailure

Join #Natera on for a one-hour webinar highlighting how the innovations of #ddcfDNA + #DQS improve detection of rejection, reduce reliance on invasive biopsies, & pave the way for more personalized patient management. #HeartTx 🫀📆

Free to register. Learn more at 🔗 https://bit.ly/46Xep7w

Between 2021-2025, relatively few AHFTC fellowship programs matched most applicants. Applicants prioritize markers of hospital reputation & #Hearttx volumes over regional disease burden or geographical considerations. https://bit.ly/4nHnWXP

#HFSA2025 #JACCHF #ACCHFT @eirangorodeski.bsky.social

The last slide from the August 2025 issue of Journal Watch, titled "Daratumumab monotherapy as a desensitization strategy prior to cardiac transplantation." For a more screenreader friendly version, the full issue PDF is at https://www.ishlt.org/docs/default-source/journal-watch/2025-08-journalwatch-cardiology.pdf.

The final study of last month's #ISHLTJournalWatch in #cardiology is from @jhlt.bsky.social.

#HasanSiddiqi reviews a study exploring #Daratumumab monotherapy as a #desensitization strategy prior to #HeartTx.

#cardiosky #transplantsky

JHLT The Podcast: Optimal Pre-Transplant Duration with HeartMate III LVADs Ahmet Bilgili and Eric Jeng, MD, of the University of Florida, are on JHLT the Podcast to discuss optimal pre-transplant duration for HeartMate III LVADs.

On #JHLTThePodcast: first author Ahmet Bilgili and senior author Eric Jeng of the University of Florida discuss the optimal pre- #HeartTx duration with the #HeartMate3 #LVAD.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

#JHLT #MCS #MechanicalCirculatorySupport

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📽️🔥 Hear more about the latest in #HeartTx, #HeartFailure, #LungTx, #LungFailure, #MCS, and #PVD through the short #ISHLT2025 Hot Topics video series: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4mYKmD2

What we're your hottest takeaways from Boston? 🔎

The fourth slide from the July 2025 issue of Journal Watch, titled "EDITORIAL SPOTLIGHT: Pediatric heart transplantation in donation after circulatory death: is it a feasible reality?--in time, yes!" For a more screenreader friendly version, the full issue PDF is at https://www.ishlt.org/docs/default-source/journal-watch/2025-07-journalwatch-pediatrics.pdf

Before Aug's #ISHLTJournalWatch comes out next week, finish reading the July #pediatrictransplant issue! The final slide of the issue spotlights an editorial on #pediatric #DCD.

When will it be a feasible reality?
How can centers expand access to #HeartTx?
What guidelines should pediatricians read?

The third slide from the July 2025 issue of Journal Watch, titled "Pediatric heart transplantation within the Scandiatransplant region--a multinational observational study spanning 38 years." For a more screenreader friendly version, the full issue PDF is at https://www.ishlt.org/docs/default-source/journal-watch/2025-07-journalwatch-pediatrics.pdf

Up next on #ISHLTJournalWatch: Multinational observations on #pediatric #HeartTx over a 38 year span in Nordic countries. In this time frame, transplant volume increased, waitlist mortality reduced, and #MCS use increased.

#ISHLT #CardioSky #TransplantSky

JHLT The Podcast: Metabolic insights on temperature controlled donor hearts Hear about how temperature storage affects donor hearts on a molecular level from Gaurav Sharma of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center on JHLT: The Podcast.

Today on #JHLTThePodcast: Gaurav Sharma, PhD, MBA joins to discuss #metabolic and #transcriptomic insights on #donorhearts with temperature controlled hypothermic preservation versus conventional static cold storage.

#JHLT #HeartTx #CardioSky #TransplantSky

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January Journal Watch Explores Recent Cardiology Topics Edited by Juan Carlos de la Fuente Mancera, MD, the January 2025 Journal Watch explores topics in Cardiology.

For #JournalWatch this January, #ISHLTEarlyCareer contributors explore topics in #Cardiology. Thanks to Juan Carlos de la Fuente Mancera for leading the issue, and @adityamehtamd.bsky.social/Juan B Ivey-Miranda for their contributions!
#CardiacAMR #HeartTx #DonorSpecificAntibodies #CardioSky #MedSky

Goodnight Moon, The (not so) Mystical Effect of Folklore and Superstitions on Cardiac Transplantation Do Friday the 13ths or Full Moons negatively impact heart transplants? Does volume increase on these "unlucky" days? Slide shows study design and findings, which can be read at the link in the post.

Happy #FridayThe13th - and if you're transplanting, fear not! This research group found no superstitious effect of Friday the 13ths or Full Moons on cardiac transplant outcomes, acuity, and volume.

#JHLT #heartTx #cardiosky #transplantsky @uofpenn.bsky.social

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#ISHLT2025 Preliminary Program Now Available

The #ISHLT2025 Preliminary Program is now available! Get to reading at ishlt.org/ishlt2025 and start checking out the variety of interdisciplinary symposia coming to Boston in April.

#HeartTx #LungTx #HeartFailure #MedSky #CardioSky #PulmSky #TransplantSky