Refining the grading of mild CAV on JHLT: The Podcast

Published 19 June 2025
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Headshot of Nikil Prasad and the headline Refining the grading of mild CAV with an angiographic and physiologic assessment

First author Nikil Prasad, MD, a cardiology fellow at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, appears on JHLT: The Podcast this month to discuss the paper, "Can the grading of mild cardiac allograft vasculopathy be further refined? An angiographic and physiologic assessment of heart transplant recipients with ISHLT CAV 1."

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In the episode, you'll hear about:

  • The study’s subdivisions of CAV grade 1 into CAV 1a and CAV 1b, based on the degree of coronary stenosis
  • Differing clinical information provided by different methods of CAV screening: reduced myocardial blood flow reserve vs angiographic grading
  • Limitations in implementing PET-based CAV assessments at various centers, and how transplant programs can use combined testing data

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