The first successful human heart transplantation was reported on 3 December 1967, by
Christiaan Barnard in South Africa. Since then this life‐saving procedure has been …

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) …

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: Transplantation of hearts retrieved from donation after circulatory death (DCD)
donors is an evolving clinical practice. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to provide an …

Heart transplantation remains the gold standard therapy for patients with advanced heart
failure; however, the utilization of heart transplantation is constrained by the limited supply of …

Heart transplantation remains the only definite treatment option for end‐stage heart
diseases. The use of hearts procured after donation after circulatory death (DCD) could help …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The constant shortage of available organs is a major obstacle and limiting factor in heart
transplantation; the discrepancy between the number of donors and potential recipients …