… transplantation rates and many donor hearts are not transplanted … donor management
results in improved left ventricular systolic function as measured by serial echocardiography…

… Serial TTEs in the setting of prolonged donor management seem to improve marginal donor
hearts and therefore might enlarge donor … , prolonged donor management with serial TTE …

… Serial echocardiography in donor heart assessment has only previously been reported in
small studies ( 9, 24 ) but has demonstrated the capacity for E-function to improve. Our study, …

… performed in 49 potential heart donors is that echocardiography performed within the first
12 … considered suitable for heart donation, resulting in 20% increase in donor retrieval rate. …

… abnormalities may be transient, and serial echocardiographic … heart donors and donors
with transient abnormalities can be challenging. It is therefore crucial that echocardiography be …

… of donor TTE’s within a region by an echocardiographic expert … improve the value of donor
TTE is to use serial studies. Though … Donor Network (CTDN), a second echocardiogram was …

… Secondly, left ventricular dysfunction documented on echocardiography in heart donors with
BSD … Serial TTE was successful in identifying this improvement, resulting in the successful …

… In brain-dead potential donors with hemodynamic instability, echocardiographic serial …
limited number of potential donors, we showed that serial echocardiography is feasible and …

… Accordingly, transplant physicians could just observe the changes in serial echocardiographic
findings without doing any emergent tests to rule out the cause of the wall motion …

… Bedside stress echocardiography is even useful to select appropriately heart donors with …
and followed during time by serial echocardiographic examinations. LV hypertrophy is due to …