With Daniella Motta Da Costa Dan, Rede Meridional Hospital, Vitoria - Brazil and Linda Van Laake, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht - The Netherlands. 

This episode discusses recent progress across the entire heart transplantation journey, from candidate selection to long-term follow-up.

The conversation explores how clinicians should assess increasingly complex transplant candidates, including older or frail patients and those with several comorbidities. 

It also examines new strategies to expand the donor pool, with a special focus on donation after circulatory death, extended-criteria donors, hepatitis C-positive donors, machine perfusion and improved donor–recipient matching.

Finally, the episode discusses advances in post-transplant care, including personalized immunosuppression, biomarkers, donor-derived cell-free DNA, gene-expression profiling and non-invasive graft surveillance.

This 2026 HFA Cardio Talk podcast series is supported by Bayer in the form of unrestricted financial support. The discussion has not been influenced in any way by its sponsor.

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