Heart transplant remains the criterion standard treatment for patients in end-stage heart
failure. Improvement in the post-heart transplant outcomes in the last decade has …

The constant shortage of available organs is a major obstacle and limiting factor in heart
transplantation; the discrepancy between the number of donors and potential recipients …

The first successful human heart transplantation was reported on 3 December 1967, by
Christiaan Barnard in South Africa. Since then this life‐saving procedure has been …

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: The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential availability of hearts from
adult donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors within an acceptable hypoxic period …

The selection of suitable donor hearts is essential for successful recipient outcome. Early
allograft failure accounts for approximately 25% of deaths in heart transplantation recipients …

With an expanding population at risk for heart failure and the resulting increase in patients
admitted to the waiting list for heart transplantation, the demand of viable organs exceeds …

Heart Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) has the potential to significantly increase the
number of patients benefitting from heart transplantation. However, the expansion of DCD …

Heart transplantation remains the only definite treatment option for end‐stage heart
diseases. The use of hearts procured after donation after circulatory death (DCD) could help …

The first human-to-human heart transplant was performed 50 years ago in 1967. Heart
transplantation has now entered an era of tremendous growth and innovation. The future of …