Serial Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Mitral Valve Prolapse-A Single-Center Retrospective Registry.

Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and mitral annular disjunction (MAD) are common valvular abnormalities that have been associated with ventricular arrhythmias (VA). Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has a key role in risk stratification of VA, including assessment of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE). Single-center retrospective analysis of patients with MVP or MAD who had >1 CMR and >1 24 h Holter registration available.

Simultaneous Lung-abdominal Organ Procurement From Donation After Circulatory Death Donors Reduces Donor Hepatectomy Time.

Background: Prolonged organ procurement time impairs the outcome of donation after circulatory death (DCD) and liver transplantation (LiT). Our transplant team developed a simultaneous, rather than sequential, lung-abdominal organ explantation strategy for DCD donation to prioritize liver procurement. We evaluated whether this change in strategy effectively reduced donor hepatectomy time (dHT), without affecting donor pneumonectomy time (dPT), and influenced LiT and lung transplantation outcome.