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ReviewAnnals of cardiothoracic surgery2025

Moderate controlled hypothermia

David A D'Alessandro, Andreas Zuckermann

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Review in Annals of cardiothoracic surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David A D'AlessandroDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Andreas ZuckermannDepartment for Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For most of the last almost 60 years of heart transplantation, static ice storage has been the dominant means of organ preservation. This method has allowed about 4 hours of relatively safe cold ischemic time, after which the risk of graft dysfunction increases exponentially. This limitation governed our allocation system and limited our ability to explore remote and extended criteria donors. Static-controlled hypothermia was recently introduced into clinical practice, and accumulating data demonstrate superior results with preservation when compared to ice storage. This has allowed centers to increasingly consider remote and extended criteria donors. Herein, we review the available data within the Global Utilization and Registry Database for Improved Heart Preservation (GUARDIAN-Heart Registry), supporting the expanding use of controlled, static preservation.

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Cardiac transplantationmoderate hypothermic preservationprimary graft dysfunction (PGD)

Identifiers

PMID39944507
PMCPMC11811578

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