July 2026 Journal Watch

Published 27 July 2026

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This month's ISHLT Journal Watch features recent topics in cardiothoracic surgery and transplant, including the latest in MCS.

Issue editor Aabha Divya, MBBS, MS, MCh, of the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, gathers topics from four contributors. You'll read about:

• How preoperative tMCS impacts durable LVAD outcomes (analyzing the INTERMACS database)
• The likelihood of lung transplant before and after the Lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS) was introduced
• A pediatric animal model (pig to baboon) of orthotopic cardiac xenotransplantation (OCXT) as a potential bridge to allotransplant
• Assessing how rapid ultraoxygenated recovery (REUP) performs as a DCD heart recovery technique across donor ages and ischemic times

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Issue Editor: 

Contributors:

Dina Al Rameni, MD
Hartford Hospital
Hartford, CT USA

 

 

Margaret R. Connolly, MD
Massachusetts General Brigham
Boston, MA USA

 

 

Shruthi Nammalwar, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA USA

 

 

Mustafa Firoz Singapurwala, MD
UT Health at Houston
Houston, TX USA

 

 

Journal Watch Senior Editor

Ross Thomson, BA, BMBCh, MRCP

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