Management of the potential organ donor in critical care units is the most immediate and
practical solution to the current crisis in organ donation. Brain death physiology significantly …

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 …

Objective: A dire shortage of lungs for transplantation exists. We hypothesized that
aggressive organ procurement organization management of lungs usually rated as …

Transplantation is sadly a therapy to die for. The survival of a recipient with end-stage heart
or lung disease requires the demise of a human being through brain death or cessation of …

Background: Orthotopic heart transplantation (HTx) is a long-term surgical therapeutic
approach for patients with end-stage heart failure. The objective of the present study was to …

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≈ …

Uncontrolled donation after cardiac death is an appealing source of organs for lung
transplantation. We compare early and long‐term outcomes of lung transplantation with …

Background Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is becoming more common when
managing brain-dead donors. Arginine vasopressin (AVP) is associated with benefits but is …

1. The frequency of heart and lung transplantation has increased dramatically over time. The
number of heart transplants increased 170% between 1968 and 1981. Exponential …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine trends in utilization of donor lungs as
the donor pool increased and to assess donor factors that predict the likelihood of utilization …