Unifying the lexicon: A call to standardize organ donation terminologies

Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar; Tiffany E Maksimuk; James J Pomposelli; Elizabeth A Pomfret; Jordan R H Hoffman

doi:10.1016/j.ajt.2024.07.004

Unifying the lexicon: A call to standardize organ donation terminologies

Am J Transplant. 2024 Oct;24(10):1913-1915. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.07.004. Epub 2024 Jul 10.

Authors

Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar¹, Tiffany E Maksimuk², James J Pomposelli³, Elizabeth A Pomfret³, Jordan R H Hoffman⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
³ Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA; University of Colorado Hospital Transplant Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁴ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA; University of Colorado Hospital Transplant Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA.

PMID: 38996970
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.07.004

No abstract available

Keywords: direct procurement and perfusion (DPP); donation after circulatory death (DCD); ex-situ heart perfusion (ESHP); ex-situ lung perfusion (ESLP); ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP); hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP); normothermic machine perfusion (NMP); normothermic regional perfusion (NRP).

Publication types

Editorial
Letter

MeSH terms

Humans
Organ Transplantation / standards
Terminology as Topic*
Tissue Donors
Tissue and Organ Procurement* / standards