Objectives Heart donation after circulatory death was recently reintroduced in the United
States with hopes of increasing donor heart availability. We examined its national use and …

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 …

Background: Limited donor availability and evolution in procurement techniques have
renewed interest in heart transplantation (HT) with donation after circulatory death (DCD) …

Objective To quantitate the impact of heart donation after circulatory death (DCD) donor
utilization on both waitlist and post-transplant outcomes in the United States. Methods The …

Heart transplantation using donation after circulatory death (DCD) was recently adopted in
the United States. This study aimed to characterize organ yield from adult (≥ 18 years) DCD …

Background Recently, several centers in the United States have begun performing donation
after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplants (HTs) in adults. We sought to characterize the …

Heart transplantation remains plagued by a limitation in the number of donor organs that has
restricted its epidemiological benefit. Over the past decade, the number of heart transplants …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: To report the long-term outcomes of 1218 organs transplanted from donation
after cardiac death (DCD) donors from January 1980 through December 2008. METHODS …

Purpose of review With increasing survival of patients with stage D heart failure, the demand
for heart transplantation has increased. The supply of donor hearts remains relatively …