Brain death: optimizing support of the traumatic brain injury patient awaiting organ procurement

MJ Souter, M Kirschen - Current opinion in critical care, 2020 - journals.lww.com
New studies have questioned previous considerations of donor eligibility, demonstrating the
ability to use donated organs from a wider pool of possible donors, with less exclusion for …

Clinical outcome of donor heart with prolonged cold ischemic time: A single‐center study

F Shafiq, Y Wang, G Li, Z Liu, F Li… - Journal of Cardiac …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Due to the shortage of donor pool, there has been a need for organs with
prolonged cold ischemic time. This study aims to evaluate the short‐term results of different …

Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Critical Care in the United Kingdom (UK) Part 1: Some Insights Into the History and Development

D Royston, RP Alston - Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 2021 - Elsevier
This review is intended to highlight some of the historic events that contributed to the
development of thoracic and cardiac anesthesia and surgery in Great Britain and Northern …

Developing Strategies to Increase Donor Lung Utilisation in UK Pulmonary Transplantation

G Hardman - 2023 - theses.ncl.ac.uk
The number of patients listed for lung transplantation exceeds the number of transplants
performed annually and, over the last decade, the number of lung transplants performed in …

Association of Heart Transplant Volume with Presence of Lung Transplant Programs and Heart Transplant's SRTR One-year Survival Rating

JL Rosen, D Ahmad, A Uphadyaya… - The Thoracic and …, 2024 - thieme-connect.com
Background Several factors affect heart transplant (HTx) and lung transplant (LTx) program
outcomes. Variabilities in institutional and community characteristics have been shown to …

Cellular therapy for chronic heart failure: a key role for epicardial fibronectin

LP Ong - 2022 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Myocardial infarction (MI) results in permanent cardiomyocyte loss, frequently leading to
heart failure, with a 50% 5-year mortality. At subacute time points following MI, animal …