Donation after Circulatory Death: Extending the Boundaries of this New Frontier

Affiliations

¹ Leviev Cardiothoracic and Vascular Center, Sheba Medical Center, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Electronic address: Yael.Peled-Potashnik@sheba.health.gov.il.
² Department of Transplantation, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge.
³ Department of Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.

Editorial

Yael Peled et al. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov;40(11):1419-1421.

doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2021.07.029. Epub 2021 Aug 10.

¹ Leviev Cardiothoracic and Vascular Center, Sheba Medical Center, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Electronic address: Yael.Peled-Potashnik@sheba.health.gov.il.
² Department of Transplantation, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge.
³ Department of Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.

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Keywords: cold storage; donation after circulatory death; ex-situ heart perfusion; heart transplantation; normothermic regional perfusion.

Comment on

Early US experience with cardiac donation after circulatory death (DCD) using normothermic regional perfusion.
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