Heart and lung procurements are multiphased processes often accompanied by an array of
complex logistics. Approaches to donor evaluation and management, organ procurement …

OBJECTIVE: We compared 1) survival after lung transplantation of recipients of donation
after cardiac death versus brain death donor organs in the United States and 2) recipient …

Heart transplantation remains the gold standard therapy for patients with advanced heart
failure; however, the utilization of heart transplantation is constrained by the limited supply of …

In direct contrast to the transplant procurement of abdominal solid organs, in which
transplant surgeons routinely accept organs that have been harvested by other surgical …

OBJECTIVES Donor organ shortage remains to be the major limitation in lung
transplantation, and donation after circulatory death (DCD) might represent one way to …

OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine long-term outcomes at the University of Wisconsin for all
lung transplant recipients who received lungs from donation after cardiac death donors …

The number of patients actively awaiting lung transplantation (LTx) is more than the number
of suitable donor lungs. The percentage of lung retrieval rate is lower when compared to …

BACKGROUND: Lung donation after cardiac death (DCD) can enlarge the donor pool.
Single-center reports have shown comparable outcomes after lung transplantation using …

BACKGROUND: Organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) has the potential to alleviate
some of the shortage of suitable lungs for transplantation. Only limited data describe …

The shortage of available donor hearts continues to limit cardiac transplantation. For this
reason, strict criteria have limited the number of patients placed on the US waiting list to≈ …