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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
#ISHLT2025 Preliminary Program Now Available
December 3, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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📢 It's the FINAL DAYS to submit applications to 3️⃣ #ISHLTResearchGrants + the 🌏 #InternationalVisitingScholarship.⠀⠀⠀
⏰ Submit by 30 September at 11:59 p.m. ET / 1 October at 03:59 UTC⠀⠀⠀
📖 Apply at 🔗 https://bit.ly/4650n53
⠀##TransplantSky #HeartTx #LungTx #research #EVLP #biomarkers
September 29, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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📢 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
March 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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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
September 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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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
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.
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January 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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📣 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
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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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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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.
December 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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📌 Webinar de #ISHLTenEspañol: Perfusión Regional Normotérmica: Presente, Futuro y Retos⠀
🗓️ 10 de Septiembre⠀
🔗 Ver el programa y regístrate ahora: https://bit.ly/4hhvsrR
##NRP #HeartTx #LungTx #TransplantSky
August 5, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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🚨#CallforPapers: Submit your papers on Personalized Medicine in Thoracic #Transplantation to #JHLT. 🫀🫁⠀
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🗓️ Submissions will be accepted until 18 September: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4heQ0B9
⠀##JHLT #HeartTx #LungTx #PersonalizedMedicine
July 16, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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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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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.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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#ISHLT announced $400,000 USD in grants funded by the #ISHLTFoundation. These grants fund research in #AI #biomarkers in #HeartTransplantation, #Pediatric #HeartTx, #ECP, and innovative projects led by trainees. Congratulations to the recipients! 🎉🫀🫁⠀
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Learn more about their work: 🔗 bit.ly/499sroD
May 18, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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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
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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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
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.
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February 20, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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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
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.
December 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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🚨LAST CALL FOR PAPERS: #JHLT is accepting papers on personalized medicine in thoracic #transplantation for a special issue. 🫀🫁

🗓️ Submit your work by 18 September: 🔗 bit.ly/4qlDNNz
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#CallforPapers #HeartTx #LungTx #PersonalizedMedicine #MedSky #TransplantSky
JHLT Call for Papers: Themed Issue on Personalized Medicine in Thoracic Transplantation
JHLT will release a special issue in the first quarter of 2027 dedicated to manuscripts focused on precision medicine across the patient journey. Submissions for this issue are now being accepted unti...
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September 8, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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#ISHLTenEspañol seminario web el próximo mes ⏰

#NRP #HeartTx #LungTx #TransplantSky
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📌 Webinar de #ISHLTenEspañol: Perfusión Regional Normotérmica: Presente, Futuro y Retos⠀
🗓️ 10 de Septiembre⠀
🔗 Ver el programa y regístrate ahora: https://bit.ly/4hhvsrR
##NRP #HeartTx #LungTx #TransplantSky
August 25, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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On the #JHLTpodcast, John Trahanas @vumedicine.bsky.social discusses how 10°C static cold storage—instead of ice—affected patient outcomes after #heartTx, including improvements in #PGD.

Learn more about the change and how hearts were utilized:
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#medsky #cardiosky
10°C static cold storage: Outcomes and Utilization for Hearts
John Trahanas of Vanderbilt is the guest on the JHLT podcast, discussing how modifications in cold storage could improve heart transplant outcomes and organ utilization.
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August 5, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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Apply to the ISHLT #InternationalVisitingScholarship to exchange knowledge of #HeartTx and #LungTx and build relationships between individuals, institutions, and counties.🌍 Up to 5️⃣ scholarships are available. Learn more at 🔗https://bit.ly/44fGoQ0
July 25, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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🚨 JHLT #CallforPapers 🚨 #JHLT is accepting submissions for a special 2027 issue focused on personalized medicine in thoracic #transplantation. 🫀🫁

➡️ Learn more & submit your work: www.ishlt.org/about/news-d...

#HeartTx #LungTx #PersonalizedMedicine
JHLT Call for Papers: Themed Issue on Personalized Medicine in Thoracic Transplantation
JHLT will release a special issue in the first quarter of 2027 dedicated to manuscripts focused on precision medicine across the patient journey. Submissions for this issue are now being accepted unti...
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July 24, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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The 5️⃣-part on-demand seminar series from #ISHLT + #HFSA explores the #HeartTx + #LungTx journey and the evolving roles of advanced practice providers in transplant programs. 🖥️🫀🫁 Free and open to all, offering up to 2.25 CE credits.

▶️ Start learning: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3RZ3B59
##TransplantSky
July 17, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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On #JHLTThePodcast, Jon Kobashigawa @cedarssinaihsu.bsky.social shares an important update to a keystone document—the @ishlt.bsky.social Consensus Conference on #GraftDysfunction Within the First 72 Hours After #HeartTx."

#PGD #PrimaryGraftDysfunction #HTX #medsky #cardiosky #transplantsky
May 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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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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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.
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February 18, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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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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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.
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September 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM