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Editorial
. 2024 Nov 30;13(6):516-518.
doi: 10.21037/acs-2024-dcd-0032. Epub 2024 Jun 13.

The thoracic surgeon perspective-lung transplantation in controlled donation after circulatory determination of death: any conflict with the heart?

Dirk Van Raemdonck  1   2 , Janne Brouckaert  3   4 , Jan Van Slambrouck  1   2 , Katrien Vandendriessche  3   4 , Laurens J Ceulemans  1   2 , Filip Rega  3   4
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Editorial

The thoracic surgeon perspective-lung transplantation in controlled donation after circulatory determination of death: any conflict with the heart?

Dirk Van Raemdonck et al. Ann Cardiothorac Surg. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Lung transplantation (LTx); controlled donation after circulatory determination of death (cDCD); direct perfusion and procurement (DPP); heart transplantation (HTx); normothermic regional perfusion (NRP).

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: D.V.R. is supported by the Broere Charitable Foundation. L.J.C. is supported by a KU Leuven University Chair funded by Medtronic, a research project from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) Belgium (G090922N) and is senior clinical research for FWO (18E2B24N). F.R. is the main principal investigator of “A Randomized Controlled, Open, Multicentre Clinical Trial Comparing the Use of Non-ischemic Heart Preservation (NIHP) versus Conventional Ischemic Cold Static Storage (ICSS) in heart transplantation” (NCT03991923) supported by XVIVO Perfusion, Göteborg, Sweden. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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