Episode 83: Consensus on Graft Dysfunction within 72 Hours After Heart Transplant

JHLT: The Podcast starts May with an important ten-year update to a keystone document—the "ISHLT Consensus Conference on Graft Dysfunction within the First 72 Hours after Heart Transplantation." The consensus summary—and a perspective piece by the authors—appears in the May issue of JHLT, and is available in full on ISHLT.org.

The podcast is happy to host conference leader and first author Jon Kobashigawa, MD, Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, to talk about the consensus document, the conference, and PGD.

The conversation includes discussion of:

• Why the document needed updating and how consensus was achieved
• The revised severity scale for PGD and the omission of the vasoactive-inotropic score
• Changes from the old document, including:
  • Newer predictors of PGD
  • The latest donor preservation devices
  • Updated treatment approaches

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