… with absent circulation leading to … for lung transplantation, establishing the main technical
guidelines. In 1995, the first successful program using such donors with a monitored circulatory …

… A shortage of lung donors poses a large obstacle for lung transplantation (LTx) [1]. LTx using
lungs obtained from donations after circulatory death (DCD) is now actively implemented in …

… Many lung transplant programs now use organs from donors after circulatory death (DCD).
However, brain dead donors far outnumber DCD donors, particularly in the United States. At …

… program aimed at obtaining lung grafts from uDCD. These results confirm our previous findings,
23 and demonstrate that, using a program … with preset ischemia times, lung grafts can be …

… This report may encourage other lung transplant programs with appropriate lung evaluation
tools and experience to expand their donor pool even if the agonal phase extends to more …

… We perform selective use of EVLP in our program, as we believe that this technology provides
us the comfort to evaluate the graft before implantation. The indications are not different …

… is the simplest technique to recover lungs from controlled donors after circulatory death and
can be … Many transplant programs worldwide have more recently explored the use of organs …

… We ventilated our uDCD donors before lung recovery, as did the program in Milan (71).
They had a successful outcome despite over 5 hours of ischemia (72). We evaluated all …

… Authors are also indebted to all surgeons, anesthesiologists, critical care physicians,
pneumologists, nurses, and personnel involved at all levels in the lung transplantation program of …

… DCD lung transplant program requires a systematic approach for an efficient utilization of
hospital resources. The surgical techniques have been developed to minimize the ischemic …