Background The United Kingdom (UK) was one of the first countries to pioneer heart
transplantation from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors. To facilitate equity of …

OBJECTIVES: To describe the clinical characteristics and organ donation rate of patients
supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) at the time of death. DESIGN …

Objective Mitochondrial transplantation has been shown to preserve myocardial function
and viability in adult porcine hearts donated after circulatory death (DCD). Herein, we …

Background Heart transplantation with a donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart is
complicated by substantial organ ischemia and ischemia–reperfusion injury. Exenatide, a …

Maximising organ utilisation from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors could help
meet some of the shortfall in organ supply, but it represents a major challenge, particularly …

Use of animal models in preclinical transplant research is essential to the optimization of
human allografts for clinical transplantation. Animal models of organ donation and …

Almost four hundred years have passed since the renowned English physician and
anatomist William Harvey fundamentally changed our understanding of the cardiovascular …

In a workshop sponsored by the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, experts
identified current knowledge gaps and research opportunities in the scientific, conceptual …

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 …

Following the recent report of the use of both abdominal and thoracoabdominal
normothermic regional perfusion in paediatric donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors …