Objective. Adopting hearts from donation after circulatory death (DCD) is a promising
approach to enlarge the donor pool. Nevertheless, DCD hearts experience severe warm …

Background In heart transplantation, donor hearts inevitably suffer from
ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, which leads to primary graft dysfunction and affects …

BACKGROUND Heart transplantation is the definitive treatment for end-stage heart failure. A
shortage of donor hearts forced transplant programs to accept older donors and longer …

Background: In heart transplantation, the adoption of hearts from donation after circulatory
death (DCD) is considered to be a promising approach to expanding the donor pool …

Aims: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) could improve cardiac graft availability, which
is currently insufficient to meet transplant demand. However, DCD organs undergo an …

Donation after circulatory death (DCD) can expand the donor pool effectively. A gap remains
in outcome between DCD livers and living donor livers, warranting improved DCD liver …

Objectives Heart transplantation is the gold standard of treatments for end-stage heart
failure, but its use is limited by extreme shortage of donor organs. The time “window” …

Background Liver transplantation from donors after cardiac death (DCD) might increase the
pool of available organs. Recently, some investigators reported the potential use of …

Background Liver transplantation from donors after cardiac death (DCDs) can increase the
pool of available organs. Recently, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been used to treat …

Background: Both machine perfusion (MP) of donor hearts with autologous blood and
crystalloid perfusates have advantages and disadvantages. Currently, which of the …