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Cleveland Clinic cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Antonio Polanco is leading a new era in heart transplantation
The world of heart transplants is changing, and a Cleveland Clinic physician is leading the way.
In this episode of Florida Health Care Insider, presented by Cleveland Clinic in partnership with The South Florida Business Journal, Dr. Antonio Polanco, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Cleveland Clinic, discusses emerging technologies that make donation-after-circulatory-death (DCD) transplants possible and how this type of transplant can benefit patients.
“My hope is that we can make heart transplants a reality for more patients who have been waiting a really long time,” Polanco said.
Listen to hear more about:
- What DCD heart transplantation entails (1:32)
- How new technologies make these transplants possible (5:16)
- Differences for patients receiving DCD heart transplants (13:00)
- The impact of pushing new procedures forward (19:45)