Organ shortage remains a limiting factor in lung transplantation. 1 Traditionally, donation
after brain death has been the main source of lungs used for transplantation; however, to …

Underutilization of less-than-ideal, yet transplant-worthy organs remains an obstacle to
maximizing the impact of the US transplant system. The increased risk of inferior …

Objectives: To summarize waitlist and transplant outcomes in kidney, liver, lung, and heart
transplantation using organ donation after circulatory death (DCD). Background: DCD has …

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 transplantation median survival has seen improvements due to
recognition of short-term survival factors but continues to trail behind other solid organs due …

The availability of thoracic organ transplantation as the treatment of choice for end-stage
cardiac or pulmonary diseases is limited by the insufficient number of donor organs from …

Objective Donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors offer the ability to expand the lung
donor pool and ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) further contributes to this ability by allowing for …

Methods We conducted a review of the literature by performing a search of the PubMed
database on 2 April 2023. To find relevant publications on CD38, we utilized the MeSH …

Lung transplantation is a well‐established treatment for advanced lung disease, improving
survival and quality of life. Over the last 60 years all aspects of lung transplantation have …

The field of lung transplantation (LTx) has expanded rapidly since its inception in the early
1960s with the work of James Hardy and colleagues at the University of Mississippi from the …