... of the heart transplant; the exclusion criteria for PGD diagnosis included hyper-acute rejection, sepsis, right ventricular dysfunction due to pulmonary hypertension and bleeding [ 9 ]. The study population was divided into donors who received early donor management by a scout in ICU and donors who were...

... superior vena cava. Knowledge in congenital cardiac disease can broaden the definition of ‘marginal’ donor hearts and allow their use without increasing the risk of transplantation. Congenital heart disease CHD Organ donor management Transplantation Current management of heart failure patients...

... for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved. 2014 Heart transplantation Organ donor Donor management Early donor management Although an oft-repeated mantra, it does remain absolutely the case that cardiac transplantation is the best, gold standard, treatment for end-stage cardiac failure. Despite...

... including hormonal and inflammatory changes may lead to significant donor heart injury. Early donor management may potentially alleviate these changes and therefore increase the number of available hearts for transplantation. We aimed to investigate whether early management of borderline donors can increase...

...Rajamiyer V. Venkateswaran; Vamsidhar Dronavalli; Val Patchell; Ian Wilson; Jorge Mascaro; Richard Thompson; John Coote; Robert S. Bonser Lung water Extravascular lung water Gravimetric lung water Lung transplantation Donor management After initial measurements and BAL, donors received either...

... Coronary artery bypass graft surgery Organ donor management Based on its good long-term results, heart transplantation is an established therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure. The number of patients presented for heart transplantation has been rising, while the number of the so-called ‘ideal...

... guidelines which we considered worth amending or adapting. All guidelines not mentioned are fully endorsed. donor management ERBP KDIGO kidney transplantation post-transplant care KDIGO (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) as a guidance body aims to ‘improve the care and outcomes of kidney...

... submitted to a successful simultaneous cardiac and renal transplantation. Heart failure Transplantation-heart Multiple-organ transplantation Organ donor management We are aware that the exceptional circumstances surrounding this patient may very rarely be reproduced, but we wish to leave a testimony...

... population. In addition, the LAS does not appear to have adversely affected short-term post-transplant outcomes in our recipient cohort. Organ donor management Transplantation Lung The institutional review board committee of our institution and the VA research and development committee approved this study...

...: The donor cTnI level represents a biochemical surrogate of functional donor heart assessment. High cTnI is associated with worse donor heart function and may act as a prompt for detailed assessment and optimisation. Cardiac troponin-I Heart transplantation Donor management Data were analysed using SPSS...

... and methylprednisolone therapy do not appear to acutely affect cardiovascular function or yield. Heart transplantation Hormone replacement therapy Donor management Brainstem death (BSD) produces haemodynamic, hormonal, inflammatory, and biochemical changes that may contribute to a decline in cardiac function. ¹...