Special Issue

Advancing Heart and Lung Transplantation in the Era of Machine Learning

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2025 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editors

Rohan Goswami, MD

Division of Heart Failure and Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, USA

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Research Interests: Heart failure; Transplant cardiology

Francesco Tona, MD, PhD, FAHA, FESC, Professor

Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua, Via N. Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padova (PD), Italy

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Research Interests: Heart transplantation; Cardiology; Doppler echocardiography; Atherosclerosis echocardiography; Heart failure; Cardiovascular risk; Cardiovascular system; Vascular medicine; PCI; Coronary flow reserve; Transplantation; Cardiomyopathy; Dilated cardiomyopathy

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). Research articles and review articles are highly invited. Authors are encouraged to send the tentative title and abstract of the planned paper to the Editorial Office (transplantation@lidsen.com) for record. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office.

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Publication

Open Access Original Research Modern UNOS Data Reveals Septuagenarians Have Inferior Heart Transplant Survival by Manish Suryapalam  , Jay Kanaparthi  , Shineui Kim  , Pedram Shafiei-Jahani  , Armeen Barghi  and Mohammed Kashem Received: 10 November 2024;  Published: 11 June 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2502252 Abstract While heart transplantation is increasingly performed in the United States for elderly patients, survival outcomes have primarily been analyzed in single-center studies. The few existing long-term studies have indicated no difference in HTx outcomes between patients ≥70 years and 60-69 years age, but these studies only assessed to 5-years [...]