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Identification: SYM01
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Optimize VAD Patient Management in High Volume Centers
Friedrich Kaufmann, MSc
Caring for the Pediatric VAD Patient - They Aren't Just Small Adults
Jodie Lantz, MSN, RN, PCNS-BC
Keep Them at Home: Interventions to Prevent Readmission
Lori Edwards, MSN
Measuring and Managing Blood Pressure in CF-LVAD recipients
Brent Lampert, DO
Echocardiography in LVAD Recipients: How and What to Measure?
Peter Bergin, MBBS, FRACP
Optimizing Unloading with Right Heart Catheterization Ramp Studies
Nir Uriel, MD
Do We Need Antiplatelet Drugs and Anticoagulants to Manage LVAD Patients?
Haifa Lyster, MSc
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Identification: SYM02
The Impact of Psychiatric Risk Factors on Outcomes in Heart Failure, MCS and Cardiothoracic Transplant Patients
Heike Spaderna, PhD
The Efficacy of Interventions for Psychiatric Risk Factors in Cardiothoracic Transplantation and MCS
Quincy Young, PhD, RPsych
It Takes a Village: Social Support and Social Determinants of Health in MCS and Cardiothoracic Transplantation as Potential Targets for Intervention
Michael Petty, PhD, RN, CNS
When Do We Call It Quits: Intervention Strategies and Outcomes for Medical Non-Adherence
Mary Dew, PhD
Are All Substances Made Equal?
Andrea DiMartini, MD
Case Presentation (Part 1): The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Jay Baumwol, MBBS, FRACP
Case Presentation (Part 2): The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Gillian Coult, BSW
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Identification: SYM03
Review of the Published Literature and the ISHLT 2014 PGD Definition
Jon Kobashigawa, MD
Review of Risk Factors for PGD: Donor, Recipient, and Surgical Procedure
Jennifer Cook, MD
First Prospective Observational Study on PGD: UK The Heart Evaluation and Retrieval for Transplantation Study
Andre Simon, MD, PhD
Vasoplegia after Adult Heart Transplantation and MCS Surgery
Maria Patarroyo Aponte
Severe PGD and Post-Operative Vasoplegia: Complications on the Same Spectrum or Different Entities?
Hiroo Takayama, MD
What Can We Learn from Non-Transplant Cardiac Surgery?
Paul Mohacsi, MD
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Identification: SYM04
Gastro-Intestinal Dysmotility in Thoracic Organ Transplantation Revisited: Importance, Evaluation, Treatment
Frank D'Ovidio
Gastro-Intestinal Malignancies in Thoracic Organ Transplantation: Collateral Damage?
Monique Malouf, MD
New Lungs - Old Sinuses: Friends or Foes?
Joseph Pilewski, MD
Lung Transplantation in Systemic Disorders: Need for a Holistic Approach
Joseph Lynch, MD
Pregnancy After Thoracic Organ Transplantation: Unwanted But Unavoidable?
Mitesh Thakrar, MD
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Identification: SYM05
Transplantation for PH in the Era of LAS
Roham Zamanian, MD
Effect of Non-Group 1 Pulmonary Hypertension on Lung Transplantation
Jorn Carlsen, MD, DMSc
Saving the Lung: Liver Transplant in Portopulmonary Hypertension
Sonja Bartolome, MD
Oops: Pregnancy in Pulmonary Hypertension
Valerie McLaughlin, MD
Challenging Choices: Switching between IV and Oral Prostanoid Therapy
Joel Wirth, MD
Quality of Life is Most Important: Patient Related Outcomes in PH
Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD
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Identification: SYM06
Sustainable Palliation: Optimizing Fontan Patients Prior to Heart Transplant
Jack Rychik, MD
Call for Help! Surgical Options for End-Stage Fontan Failure
Asif Hasan, MD
Do You Want to List Too Early or Too Late? How to Determine When Fontan Patients Should be Listed for Transplant
Claire Irving, MBChB, MRCPCH, MD
It's Not JUST the Heart: Multi-Organ Transplantation in Fontan Patients
Daniel Bernstein, MD
Will Anybody Still Transplant My Patient? Programmatic Issues With Taking On Complex Fontan Patients
Richard Kirk, FRCP, FRCPCH
Case Presentation - The Failing Fontan Patient
Kathleen Simpson, MD
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Identification: SYM07
Non-Cultural Methods for Diagnosis and Prevention of Invasive Fungal Infections: Are We There Yet?
Barbara Alexander, MD
Role of Inhaled Antimicrobials in the Era of Multidrug Resistance
Benoit Guery, MD
Infection in Thoracic Organ Transplant Recipients on ECMO
Nicolas Mueller, MD
Hepatitis C in Donor and Thoracic Organ Transplant Candidates and Recipients: A New Horizon
Paolo Grossi, MD, PhD
Experience in HIV Infection in Thoracic Organ Transplantation and MCS
Shirish Huprikar, MD
EBV and Anellovirus Viremia as Markers of Risk of Infection in Lung Transplant Recipients
José Maria Aguado, MD
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Identification: PL1
Welcome/Program Chair Report
Jeffrey Teuteberg, MD
Thoracic Registry Report
Josef Stehlik, MD, MPH
MCSD Registry Reports
James L Kirklin, MD
President's Report
Maryl R Johnson, MD
(1) The Treatment of Patients with Advanced Heart Failure Ineligible for Cardiac Transplantation with the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device: Results of the ENDURANCE Supplement Trial
Carmelo Milano, MD
Interactive Discussant
Vivek Rao, MD
(2) The Impact of Age, Sex, Therapeutic Intent and Severity of Advanced Heart Failure on Outcomes in the Multicenter Study of Maglev Technology in Patients Undergoing Mechanical Circulatory Support Therapy with Heartmate 3 (Momentum 3) Pivotal Trial
Daniel Goldstein, MD
Interactive Discussant
Jan Schmitto
Pioneer Award Recipient Lecture: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Stuart W Jamieson, MB, FRCS
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Identification: 001
(3) Plasma Free Hemoglobin Activates Platelets and Protects Von Willebrand Factor from Degradation: Clinical and In Vitro Evidence That LVAD Hemolysis Causes LVAD Thrombosis
Carlo Bartoli, MD, PhD
(4) The Effect of Pre-Existing Hypercoagulable Disorders on Outcomes in Patients with LVADs
Sirtaz Adatya, MD
(5) Standard Dose Doxycycline Does Not Alter von Willebrand Factor Degradation in Patients with CF LVAD
Mary Keebler, MD
(6) Platelet Membrane-Related Morphologic Alterations: An Early Marker of Supra-Physiologic Shear-Mediated Platelet Activation Associated with VADs
Marvin J. Slepian, MD
(7) Novel Analysis of High-Molecular-Weight Von Willebrand Factor Multimers Predicts Bleeding Events
Samson Hennessy-Strahs, BA
(8) Managing Anticoagulation in LVAD Patients: The Harefield Experience
Rachel Hards, RGN
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Identification: 002
(9) Mechano-Acoustic Detection of Dysfunction in Continuous Flow VADs Utilizing Stretchable Electronic Systems
Marvin Slepian, MD
(10) Virtual Implantation of the Infant Jarvik 2015 for Eligibility Criteria Establishment
Justin Ryan, PhD
(11) A Novel, Implantable Device for Right-Side Mechanical Circulatory Support
James Stanfield, PhD
(12) Pulsatile Outflow in Cows Supported Long-Term with the BiVACOR Rotary TAH
William Cohn, MD
(13) Primary Biventricular Durable Ventricular Assist Devices from Experience North American Centers: A Cautionary Tale
Palak Shah, MD, MS
(14) Is ICD Implantation Necessary in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy?
Aitor Uribarri, MD