Increasing the United States heart transplant donor pool with donation after circulatory death

Oliver K Jawitz; Vignesh Raman; Adam D DeVore; Robert J Mentz; Chetan B Patel; Joseph Rogers; Carmelo Milano

doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.09.080

Increasing the United States heart transplant donor pool with donation after circulatory death

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 May;159(5):e307-e309. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.09.080. Epub 2019 Sep 30.

Authors

Oliver K Jawitz¹, Vignesh Raman², Adam D DeVore³, Robert J Mentz³, Chetan B Patel⁴, Joseph Rogers³, Carmelo Milano²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
³ Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.

Abstract

DCD heart donation has the potential to significantly increase the pool of available donor allografts in the US, by as much as 30%, and will lead to a substantial decrease in waiting list mortality.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Donor Selection*
Female
Heart Failure / diagnosis
Heart Failure / mortality
Heart Failure / physiopathology
Heart Failure / surgery*
Heart Transplantation* / adverse effects
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Registries
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Shock / mortality*
Time Factors
Tissue Donors / supply & distribution*
Treatment Outcome
United States
Waiting Lists* / mortality

Grants and funding

T32 HL069749/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States