Five Hearts, Seven Days: Expanding the Standard Criteria with Dr. Ahmet Kilic

06/17/24 • 39 min

Dr. Ahmet Kilic joins the studio to discuss the growth and accomplishments of the Johns Hopkins Medicine heart transplant program. He shares a recent, monumental accomplishment of transplanting five hearts in a mere seven days, made possible by the effective coordination of a large team and the identification of appropriate patients. Dr. Kilic also discusses the changing criteria for donor and recipient selection, the utilization of preservation techniques, and the future frontiers in heart transplantation.

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