Left Atrial Cardiomyopathy with Left Atrial Thrombus despite Sinus Rhythm in a Patient with Severe Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Requiring Cardiac Transplantation.

• VT storm can result from a number of different cardiomyopathies. • Atrial myopathy is often underrecognized and can result in thromboembolism. • We present a unique case of VT cardiomyopathy with a predominant atrial myopathy.

Extra-corporeal normothermic machine perfusion of the porcine kidney: working towards future utilization in Australasia.

Background: The ongoing supply-demand gap with respect to donor kidneys for transplantation necessitates the increased use of higher kidney donor profile index and/or donation after circulatory death (DCD) kidneys. Machine perfusion (MP) preservation has become increasingly popular as a means to preserve such organs. Human data regarding normothermic kidney MP (NMP) is in its infancy, and such a system has not been established in the Australasian clinical setting.