Lung transplantation can improve quality of life and prolong survival for individuals with end-
stage lung disease, and many advances in the realms of both basic science and clinical …

Background The interest in donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) donors for lung
transplantation (LT) has been recently rekindled due to lung allograft shortage. Clinical …

Background Lung transplants from donation after circulatory death (DCD) have been
scarcely used in the United States. Concerns about the warm ischemic injury, resource mal …

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Chronic organ shortage remains the most limiting factor in lung transplantation. To
overcome this shortage, a minority of centers have started with efforts to reintroduce …

Controlled donation after circulatory death (DCD) has the potential to substantially increase
the number of lung transplants thus offsetting some of the imbalance between need and …

Background. Lung transplantations (LTx) have become an effective lifesaving treatment for
patients with end-stage lung diseases. While the shortage of lung donor pool and severe …

Objective Despite growing evidence of comparable outcomes in recipients of donation after
circulatory death and donation after brain death donor lungs, donation after circulatory death …

Intro Textbook surgical outcome (TO) is a novel composite quality measure in lung
transplantation (LTx). Compared to 1‐year survival metrics, TO may better differentiate …

Lung transplantation is the most effective modality for the treatment of patients with end-
stage lung diseases. Unfortunately, many people cannot benefit from this therapy due to …