Heart transplantation remains the preferred option for improving quality of life and survival
for patients suffering from end-stage heart failure. Unfortunately, insufficient supply of …

Fifty years since the first successful human heart transplant from a non-heart beating donor,
this concept of heart transplantation from donation after circulatory determined death (DCD) …

The gold-standard therapy for advanced-stage heart failure is cardiac transplantation. Since
the first heart transplant in 1967, the majority of hearts transplanted came from brain death …

Heart transplantation from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors is a rapidly
expanding practice. In this review, we describe the history and challenges of DCD heart …

Purpose There is increasing clinical utilization of hearts from the donation after circulatory
death (DCD) pathway with the aim of expanding the donor pool and mitigating the ever …

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

Abstract Purpose of Review To highlight the current global experience with DCD heart
transplantation and explore the evolution of, and compare preservation strategies; examine …

Heart transplantation remains the gold-standard therapy for end-stage heart failure; the
expected median survival range is 12–13 years. More than 30,000 heart transplants have …

Purpose Heart transplantation remains the gold standard for end stage heart failure.
Unfortunately in the UK, limited by a finite number of donation after brain death (DBD) …

Background The requirement for heart transplantation is increasing, vastly outgrowing the
supply of hearts available from donation after brain death (DBD) donors. Transplanting …