BACKGROUND:: Because of the shortage of heart donors in the United States, efforts are
necessary to maximize the yield of donor screening. The purpose of this study was to …

Objectives The diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for evaluation and management of
cardiac function in brain-dead patients vary from country to country. The aim of the present …

Background—Current regulations require that all cardiac allograft offers for transplantation
must include an interpreted 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG). However, little is known about …

Heart transplantation has in recent years become the treatment of choice for end stage heart
failure. However while the waiting list for transplantation is growing steadily, the donor pool …

Background Previous studies have demonstrated that carefully selected donor hearts (DHs)
with poor left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) may be transplanted with long-term survival …

Roughly 60% of hearts offered for transplantation are rejected because of organ dysfunction.
Moreover, hearts from circulatory-dead patients have long been thought to be non …

BACKGROUND:: Although myocardial dysfunction severe enough to preclude harvest for
transplantation has been reported in approximately 20% of potential adult organ donors, the …

Background Reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) in the donor heart is often a
contraindication for transplant. However, small studies have validated the use of hearts with …

Background One reason for refusal of donor hearts is the development of left ventricular
systolic dysfunction, a condition reported to occur in up to 42% of adults with brain death …

Background—Potential cardiac donors show various degrees of myocardial dysfunction,
and the most severely affected hearts are unsuitable for transplantation. The cause of this …