...Paul Herijgers; Marcel Borgers; Willem Flameng 4 8 1997 30 8 1997 Copyright © 1998, European Society of Cardiology 1998 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +32 (16) 337298; Fax: +32 (16) 337855. Time for primary review 32 days. Abstract Objective: Brain death induces important haemodynamic...

... of a 50/50 mixture of 0.9% NaCl and Geloplasma® (Institut Mérieux Benelux, Brussels, Belgium) as needed. An intracranial balloon catheter was placed subdurally (Fogarty 3F, Baxter, Irvine, CA, USA). Brain death was induced by sudden inflation of the intracranial balloon with 300 μl of saline. The balloon...

... intracranial pressure, it failed to enhance cardiac liberation of noradrenaline after compared to before raising intracranial pressure. Nicotine-induced ventricular augmentation was obtunded after brain death despite the fact that ventricular myocytes underwent no detectable histological changes. In contrast...

... allograft vasculopathy, malignancy, infection, and renal failure. end-stage heart disease heart transplantation donation after brain death donation after circulatory death primary graft dysfunction immunosuppression opportunistic infections acute cellular rejection acute antibody-mediated rejection...

...European Society of Cardiology Organ transplantation is the standard treatment modality for end-stage organ disease in selected cases. Two types of potential organ donors can be identified: the brain-dead 'heart-beating donors', referred to as DBD (donation after brain death), and the warm...

...European Society of Cardiology Organ transplantation is the standard treatment modality for end-stage organ disease in selected cases. Two types of potential organ donors can be identified: the brain-dead ‘heart-beating donors’, referred to as DBD (donation after brain death), and the warm...