Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium, which may occur in isolation or
as part of systemic infectious/immune/autoimmune conditions, characterized by vast …

Cardiac transplantation has become limited by a critical shortage of suitable organs from
brain-dead donors. Reports describing the successful clinical transplantation of hearts …

Ex vivo heart perfusion (EVHP) may facilitate resuscitation of discarded donor hearts and
expand the donor pool; however, a reliable means of demonstrating organ viability prior to …

Critical care physicians are frequently called on to diagnose and manage brain death.
Although the medical and legal concepts of brain death are generally accepted, establishing …

Hearts donated following circulatory death (DCD) may represent an additional source of
organs for transplantation; however, the impact of donor extubation on the DCD heart has …

Management of takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is currently empirical and supportive, via
extrapolation of therapeutic principles worked out for other cardiovascular pathologies …

Objectives New onset of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in organ donors is frequent and
considered as a contraindication for utilization of the heart. However, such dysfunction might …

Background In this study we sought to quantify hazards associated with various donor
factors into a cumulative risk scoring system (the Pediatric Heart Donor Assessment Tool, or …

Objectives The global shortage of donor organs has urged transplanting units to extend
donor selection criteria, for example, impaired left ventricular function (LVF), leading to the …

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that hearts that are perfused under ex-situ conditions
lose normal coronary vasomotor tone and experience contractile failure over a few hours …