Heart Transplant
Guest: Mauricio A. Villavicencio Theoduloz, M.D.
Host: Malcolm R. Bell, M.D.
Joining us today to discuss heart transplant is Mauricio A. Villavicencio Theoduloz, M.D., associate professor of surgery and Director of Heart and Lung Transplant at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Tune in to hear from the leading heart transplant expert.
Specific topics discussed:
- What do you think is the greatest advancement in heart transplantation in the last decade?
- We heard in the news a xenotransplant was done, is clinical xenotransplant here to stay?
- What has happened to heart allocation lately and what clinic impact has produced?
- What is normothermic regional perfusion and ex vivo heart perfusion? Why these are helpful?
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