ArticleAnnals of cardiothoracic surgery2018
Donor selection in the modern era.
Article in Annals of cardiothoracic surgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Heart transplant survival and the use of donors with intracranial bleeding: United Network for Organ Sharing Registry propensity-score matched analysis.JTCVS open · 2024Article
- Impact of prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation on outcomes in heart transplantation with higher risk donor heart.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2024Article
- Iron Deficiency in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices.Cardiac failure review · 2024Review
- The ABC of Heart Transplantation-Part 1: Indication, Eligibility, Donor Selection, and Surgical Technique.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Heart Transplantation in High-Risk Recipients Employing Donor Marginal Grafts Preserved WithTransplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2023Article
- A Holistic View of Advanced Heart Failure.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- The outcomes of marginal donor hearts compared with ideal donors: a single-center experience in Iran.Korean journal of transplantation · 2022Article
- Validation of existing risk scores for mortality prediction after a heart transplant in a Chinese population.Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2022Article
- Heart Transplant Donor Selection Guidelines: Review and Recommendations.Current cardiology reports · 2022Review
- Donor Cardiac Troponin for Prognosis of Adverse Outcomes in Cardiac Transplantation Recipients: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Transplantation direct · 2022Review
- Donor Characteristics and Recipient Outcomes After Heart Transplantation in Adult Congenital Heart Disease.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2021Article
- Heart transplant outcomes in patients with mechanical circulatory support: cold storage versus normothermic perfusion organ preservation.Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2021Article
- Continuous-flow left ventricular assist device versus orthotopic heart transplantation in adults with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of cardiothoracic surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
The growing disparity between the supply of donor hearts for transplantation and the demand for such organs has led to liberalization of the criteria for donor heart acceptance over the past few decades. The upper age limit and size restrictions for donor heart acceptance continue to be revised and hearts are being routinely used from donors with left ventricular dysfunction, left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), cocaine use, multiple medical co-morbidities and after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This article reviews recent data for use of such "expanded criteria" donor hearts and suggests ways to further increase the donor pool, including use of hearts from donors with hepatitis C and after circulatory determination of death. Donor biomarkers and risk scores may eventually aid in heart acceptance decisions, while ethical issues surrounding information sharing with transplant recipients remain a topic of great debate.
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