Standards & Guidelines
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ISHLT Guidelines for the Evaluation and Care of Cardiac Transplant Candidates8 August 2024
This guideline document aims to provide tools to help integrate the numerous variables involved in evaluating patients for transplantation, emphasizing updating the collaborative treatment while waiting for a transplant.
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2024 Update to the 2020 ACC/AHA Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults With Heart FailureA Report of the ACC/AHA Joint Committee on Performance Measures8 August 2024
Endorsed by ISHLT, this document is a focused update to the 2020 report and desribes performance measure for heart failure that are appropriate for public reporting or pay-for-performance programs.
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ISHLT/TTS-ID Measles Guidance for the Transplant Community24 June 2024
The ISHLT Infectious Diseases Professional Community, in collaboration with the Transplant Infectious Diseases Section of The Transplantation Society, have developed a document to provide guidance to all of the transplant community.
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An ISHLT Consensus Statement on Strategies to Prevent and Manage Hemocompatibility Related Adverse Events in Patients with a Durable, Continuous-Flow Ventricular Assist Device14 June 2024
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This ISHLT Consensus Statement is intended to assist clinicians caring for patients with a CF-LVAD provide the best care possible with respect to prevention and management of these events. -
Ethical Considerations in Xenotransplantation of Thoracic Organs – A Call for a Debate on Value Based Decisions22 May 2024
Highlighting ethical considerations regarding heart and lung xenotransplantation, this paper encourages the readers to consider the vast potential of this emerging technique to do good, but also the risk of doing harm, and to participate in a discussion.
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ISHLT 2024 Infection Definitions for Durable and Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices1 May 2024
Infections remain a significant concern in patients receiving both durable and acute MCS devices. This consensus manuscript provides updated definitions for infections associated with durable MCS devices and new definitions for infections in acute MCS.
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Assessing and Managing Frailty in Advanced Heart Failure: An ISHLT Consensus Statement19 December 2023
The purpose of this consensus statement is to provide an integrated perspective on the definition of frailty in advanced HF and to generate a consensus on how to assess and manage frailty.
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Consensus Statements from the ISHLT Consensus Conference: Heart Failure Related Cardiogenic Shock8 December 2023
This consensus statement summarizes the results of a consensus conference premeeting survey answered by participants and the breakout sessions where predefined clinical issues were discussed to achieve consensus in the absence of robust data.
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Heart Failure Related Cardiogenic Shock: An ISHLT Consensus Conference Content Summary8 December 2023
This consensus report summarizes the contemporary literature review on heart failure related cardiogenic shock presented in the first half of the conference.
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Dual-Organ Transplantation: Indications, Evaluation, and Outcomes for Heart-Kidney and Heart-Liver Transplantation: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association15 August 2023
This statement describes the impact and assessment of pre-transplant renal and hepatic dysfunction, provides an approach to patient selection, and explores the ethics of multiorgan transplant and the safety net approach to dual-organ transplant.
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2023 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Coronary Artery RevascularizationA Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Performance Measures7 July 2023
Given the substantial burden of CAD and publication of the 2021 ACC/AHA/SCAI Guideline for Coronary Artery Revascularization, it was deemed appropriate to develop a new set of performance and quality measures related to coronary artery revascularization.
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The 2023 ISHLT Guidelines for Mechanical Circulatory Support: A 10- Year Update25 May 2023
In 2013, ISHLT published the first official guidelines for implantable MCS. Ten years later, the update is available.
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The ISHLT/HFSA Guideline on Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support6 February 2023
A collaborative effort commissioned by ISHLT and HFSA has developed this critically-needed guideline for the management of patients requiring acute mechanical circulatory support.
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ISHLT Guidelines for the Care of Heart Transplant RecipientsEndorsed by the Pediatric Heart Transplant Society20 December 2022
The ISHLT Guidelines for the Care of HTX Recipients updates the 2010 Guidelines to reflect advances made in the last 10+ years and to identify remaining gaps, with the goal of guiding transplant programs and encouraging further research to close gaps.
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Reproductive Health after Thoracic TransplantationAn ISHLT Expert Consensus Statement25 October 2022
The goal of this statement is to summarize the current evidence and provide guidance surrounding preconception counseling, patient risk assessment, medical management, maternal and fetal outcomes, obstetric management, and pharmacologic considerations.
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Donor Heart Selection: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Providers20 September 2022
These guidelines provide evidence-based and expert-consensus recommendations for the selection of donor hearts following brain death. These recommendations were compiled by an international panel of experts based on an extensive literature review.
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Consensus Recommendations for Use of Maintenance Immunosuppression in Solid Organ Transplantation29 August 2022
These consensus recommendations are intended to provide transplant clinicians with a summary of literature on maintenance immunosuppression in the modern era and to support transplant team members working to secure medication access for patients.
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2022 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension26 August 2022
These comprehensive clinical practice guidelines from ESC and ERS cover the whole spectrum of PH, with an emphasis on diagnosing and treating pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH).
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ISHLT Statement on Transplant Ethics27 June 2022
ISHLT holds that there should be explicit policies, open to public scrutiny, governing all aspects of organ/tissue donation and transplantation, including the management of waiting lists for organs to ensure fair and appropriate access to transplantation.
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Peri-operative Management of Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart Failure Undergoing Surgery23 June 2022
This document represents the first international consensus statement for the perioperative management of patients with pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure.
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