Abstract

These highlights focus on the research that has been published in the year 2022 and is divided into preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative sections. The preoperative section includes research pertaining to the assessment and optimization of candidates for HTX, donor optimization and the use of extended donors, organ protection systems, and donation after circulatory death (DCD) allografts, recipient factors including cannabis use, sex, race, and comorbidities such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, and peripartum cardiomyopathy, the effects of the 2018 heart allocation policy change on waitlist and postoperative mortality, updates on HTX in patients with Covid-19, in pediatric patients, and those who require a bridge to transplant. The intraoperative section includes the use of a multidisciplinary team, a proposed transfusion algorithm, bench surgery on the allograft, and size matching. The postoperative section focuses on the research pertaining to the development and management of tricuspid regurgitation, echocardiography, arrhythmia management, and finally xenotransplantation.

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