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ReviewIndian heart journal2018

Heart transplantation after the circulatory death; The ethical dilemma.

Shayan Marsia, Ariba Khan, Maryam Khan, Saba Ahmed, Javeria Hayat, Abdul Mannan Khan Minhas, Samir Mirza, Nisar Asmi, Jonathon Constantin

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Review in Indian heart journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Shayan MarsiaDow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan. Electronic address: shayan.shoaib420@gmail.com.
Ariba KhanDow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Maryam KhanDow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Saba AhmedDow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Javeria HayatDow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Abdul Mannan Khan MinhasInternal Medicine, Orange Park Medical Center, FL, USA.
Samir MirzaDow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Nisar AsmiInternal Medicine, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, USA.
Jonathon ConstantinCardiology, First Coast Cardiovascular, FL, USA.
Dow University of Health Sciences · PKArk Medical Center · USFirst Coast Cardiovascular Institute · USJohn H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Donors after brain death (DBD) have been the major source of organ donation due to good perfusion of the organs. However, owing to the mismatch in demand and supply of the organ donors and recipients, donors after circulatory death (DCDDs) has increased recently all over the world. Kidneys, liver, and lungs are being used for transplantation from DCDDs. Recently, heart transplantation from DCDDs has been started, which is under the firestorm of scrutiny by the ethicists. The ethical dilemma revolves around the question whether the donors are actually dead when they are declared dead by cardiocirculatory death criteria for organ procurement. The subsequent literature review addresses all the perspectives by differentiating between the donation methods known as DBDs and DCDDs, explaining the implications of the dead-donor rule on the organ donation pool, and categorizing the determinants of death leading to separation of the arguments under the two methods of donations.

Indexed as

Brain DeathHeart TransplantationHumansTissue and Organ ProcurementTissue DonorsBrain deathDead-donor ruleDonor after circulatory deathHeart transplantationOrgan procurement

Identifiers

PMID30595305
PMCPMC6309566
OpenAlexW2888463333

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