Using transplanted hearts preserved by thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion (taNRP) after circulatory death results in better clinical outcomes than using those retrieved via direct ...

The machinery that turns a tragedy into a transplant is quietly breaking down under its own success. A new review by ...

Evans et al. (1992) have estimated the national, annual, potential number of brain-dead (heart-beating) donors at 6,900 to 10,700; the number of actual donors therefore is currently half this ...

A case series describes 24 patients who received donation after circulatory death cardiac allografts that were recovered using the REUP technique. REUP is an organ procurement technique that doesn't ...

A national study found that more lungs were offered for transplantation from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors than expected. Simultaneous heart donation with use of normothermic regional ...

September special focus issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure examines a changing era in heart transplantation, from donor expansion and allocation reform to personalized immunosuppression The study ...