JHLT: The Podcast

For the first time, JHLT: The Podcast welcomes a patient onto the podcast. The Digital Media Editors are pleased to welcome heart transplant recipient and patient advocate Payton Herres for a discussion about her recent perspective piece in JHLT.
In this compelling, moving discussion, Payton shares:
Her treatment story—from her congenital diagnoses to her life-changing transplant—and her donor's story
The difference between coverage and access—and how FDA labeling affected her access to an important component of her care
What she wishes clinicians understood about long-term care of transplant patients
For the latest studies from JHLT, visit www.jhltonline.org/current, or, if you're an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at www.ishlt.org/jhlt.
Don't already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at www.ishlt.org for a free subscription, or subscribe today at www.jhltonline.org.

On JHLT: The Podcast, we kick off June with a paper entitled "Serial assessment of modified Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions SHOCK classification in post-cardiotomy patients," which is available online now and in the June issue of JHLT.
Today's guests are first author Ufuk Baldan, MD and senior author Patrick Klein, MD, PhD, both of the Amsterdam University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
We discuss:
The heterogeneous nature of post-cardiotomy shock and challenges to treat
Should serial assessments become standardized post-cardiac surgery?
Does SCAI staging overestimate risk—and how do we interpret the stages we observe immediately post-op?
What's next for this line of research?
For the latest studies from JHLT, visit www.jhltonline.org/current, or, if you're an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at www.ishlt.org/jhlt.
Don't already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at www.ishlt.org for a free subscription, or subscribe today at www.jhltonline.org.

On this special episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors take a look back at the exciting science that was on display at ISHLT2026, the ISHLT 46th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions.
Topics include:
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in transplantation, especially in assessing donor lungs and EVLP
Cardiogenic Shock science at ISHLT2026, including a well-attended, all-new Academy
The re-launch of the ISHLT International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, and the recent report in JHLT
For the latest studies from JHLT, visit www.jhltonline.org/current, or, if you're an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at www.ishlt.org/jhlt.
Don't already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at www.ishlt.org for a free subscription, or subscribe today at www.jhltonline.org.

JHLT: The Podcast starts May with an important ten-year update to a keystone document—the "ISHLT Consensus Conference on Graft Dysfunction within the First 72 Hours after Heart Transplantation." The consensus summary—and a perspective piece by the authors—appears in the May issue of JHLT, and is available in full on ISHLT.org.
The podcast is happy to host conference leader and first author Jon Kobashigawa, MD, Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, to talk about the consensus document, the conference, and PGD.
The conversation includes discussion of:
Why the document needed updating and how consensus was achieved
The revised severity scale for PGD and the omission of the vasoactive-inotropic score
Changes from the old document, including: Newer predictors of PGD
The latest donor preservation devices
Updated treatment approaches

For the latest studies from JHLT, visit www.jhltonline.org/current, or, if you're an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at www.ishlt.org/jhlt.
Don't already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at www.ishlt.org for a free subscription, or subscribe today at www.jhltonline.org.

In this episode, JHLT: The Podcast highlights a special issue of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation that's just been released. The issue focuses on innovations in Device Therapies, and was edited by JHLT Deputy Editor Manreet Kanwar, MD, FACC, of the University of Chicago. Dr. Kanwar joins Digital Media Editor Van-Khue Ton, MD, PhD for a discussion about the special issue.
The discussion explores:
The importance of discussing device therapies in the advanced heart and lung failure communities
The most anticipated device therapies in the pipeline for clinicians and patients to consider
The impact of publishing in JHLT
For the latest studies from JHLT, visit www.jhltonline.org/current, or, if you're an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at www.ishlt.org/jhlt. Read the special issue on ScienceDirect or at the Journal website.
Don't already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at www.ishlt.org for a free subscription, or subscribe today at www.jhltonline.org.