Heart transplantation and LVAD therapy – Where are we now and how did we get here?

This talk presented by Dr Owais Dar focuses on heart transplantation and LVAD therapy and analysis where we are now and how we got here.

• Individuals
• Important advances which led to HTx being established as a gold standard theraphy for AHF

– Cold preservation

– Improved immunosuppresion

– Percutaneous heart biopsy for diagnosis of histological rejection

– Improved patient selection and post transplant care

• LVADs

– Heartmate |

-Heartmate ||

– Heartware

– Heartmare|||

Dr Owais Dar completed his specialist general cardiology training and sub-specialty heart failure training at:

• North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
• The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
• Whittington Hospital.

He got a funded international fellowship in advanced heart failure, heart transplantation and left ventricular assist devices in Vienna General Hospital (Austria) and Stanford Health Care (California, USA).