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

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

Oliver K Jawitz  1 , Vignesh Raman  2 , Adam D DeVore  3 , Robert J Mentz  3 , Chetan B Patel  4 , Joseph Rogers  3 , Carmelo Milano  2
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Increasing the United States heart transplant donor pool with donation after circulatory death

Oliver K Jawitz et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 May.

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.

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Figure 1.
Application of the 2017 Messer DCD heart transplant donor selection criteria to the US DCD donor pool.
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Figure 2.
Predicted suitable DCD heart transplants (red) using 2017 Messer criteria and annual number of DBD heart transplants (gray). End-of-year waiting list volume (blue) provided by United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Error bars indicate 95% confidence interval, estimated assuming binomial distribution and 65% DCD heart utilization rate from 2017 Messer study. DBD, donation after brain death; DCD, donation after circulatory death.
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