Fardad Esmailian

TL;DR: Although ECMO can improve survival of patients with advanced heart disease, there is significant associated morbidity with performance of this intervention.

TL;DR: A consensus conference was organized to better define, diagnose, and manage primary graft dysfunction (PGD), with the aim of leading to better understanding of PGD and prevention/minimization of its adverse outcomes.

TL;DR: Heart transplantation using donor hearts adequately preserved with the Organ Care System or with standard cold storage yield similar short-term clinical outcomes and the metabolic assessment capability of the Organ care System needs further study.

TL;DR: PHM is the optimal donor-recipient size match metric for prediction of mortality after heart transplant and many offers turned down for donor size were above the threshold for adequacy of size match, and thus, the use of PHM could improve donor heart utilization and post-transplant survival.

TL;DR: Patients receiving TAHs have rapidly declining cardiac function and require prompt intervention and Experienced centers have better outcomes, likely related to patient selection, timing of implantation, patient care, and device management.