Patients who are dead by neurologic criteria (brain dead) are not homogeneous

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¹ Division of Neurosurgery, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill; Division of Neurosurgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Ill.

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Noam Stadlan. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Mar.

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. 2020 Mar;159(3):e213.

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.07.143. Epub 2019 Oct 25.

¹ Division of Neurosurgery, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill; Division of Neurosurgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Ill.

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Reply from the authors: We do not know what we do not know-Mechanism of donor brain death and transplant recipient outcomes.
Jawitz OK, Raman V, Milano C. Jawitz OK, et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Mar;159(3):e214-e215. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.07.144. Epub 2019 Oct 14. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020. PMID: 31623848 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Reply: Worth the wait.
Lee PHU, Mokadam NA. Lee PHU, et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Mar;159(3):e213-e214. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.08.134. Epub 2019 Oct 15. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020. PMID: 31627946 No abstract available.

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Jawitz OK, Raman V, Barac YD, Anand J, Patel CB, Mentz RJ, DeVore AD, Milano C. Jawitz OK, et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Apr;159(4):1345-1353.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.04.060. Epub 2019 Apr 30. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020. PMID: 31147170 Free PMC article.