Piotr Suwalski

Immune Remodeling Across Advanced Heart Failure, LVAD Support, and Heart Transplantation: From Cellular Activation to Tissue-Resident Memory

Advanced heart failure (HF) left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support and heart transplantation (HTx) are commonly considered distinct clinical stages, although each occurs within an immune system shaped by preceding inflammatory and antigenic exposures. This review introduce...

Beyond Histocompatibility: Donor Tissue Immune States and Their Role in Heart Transplantation

Heart transplantation transfers not only donor alloantigens and functional myocardium but also a pre-existing tissue environment shaped by resident immune, vascular, stromal, and parenchymal populations. This review examines the hypothesis that the biological state of donor tissu...

Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation During Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery: Risk Dependencies and Long-Term Survival

Objective: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common finding among patients with mitral valve disease, with a growing body of evidence showing survival benefits associated with surgical ablation (SA). However, a lack of data persists regarding the safety and survival after SA concomit...