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ReviewAnnals of cardiothoracic surgery2024

Adult cardiac transplantation utilizing donors after circulatory death.

Tanisha Rajah, David Blitzer, Scott Silvestry, Hannah Copeland

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Review in Annals of cardiothoracic surgery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Differential transcriptomic and metabolomic landscape between human hearts donated after cardiac vs brain death.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Tanisha RajahBirmingham Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
David BlitzerDivision of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Scott SilvestryFlorida Hospital Transplant Institute, Orlando, FL, USA.
Hannah CopelandDivision of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Lutheran Hospital, Indiana University School of Medicine - Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Donation after circulatory death (DCD) presents both opportunities and challenges in the realm of heart transplantation. Its emergence holds promise for narrowing the gap between patients in need of organs and the available donor pool. The rapid emergence of DCD use has allowed heart transplant volume to increase worldwide. Long-term outcomes and best practices remain to be defined and are important considerations in the wider use of these techniques in a broad selection of patients to understand best use and practice moving forward. Expanding DCD donation entails substantial resource allocation, coordination efforts, and training initiatives. Moving forward, standardization is imperative, particularly in aspects such as "stand-off" time, warm ischemic time (WIT), and perfusate composition.

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circulatory deathdonation after circulatory death (DCD)heart transplantTransplant

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PMID39649635
PMCPMC11618117

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