2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.08.140
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Fishing in the thoracic organ donor pool: What next if the catch of the day got infected with hepatitis C virus?

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“… 23 Following the publication of a clinical trial in the New England Journal of Medicine on the use of heart and lung transplants from hepatitis C-infected donors to uninfected recipients, 24 an important invited editorial in the Journal provided expert insight on a strategy of using hepatitis C-infected donor lungs in combination with antiviral agents to expand the pool of donor organs. 25 This approach has also been supported in a study that stratified all deceased organ donors from 2015 to 2018 by hepatitis C status using Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data and estimated that transplanting lungs from hepatitis C positive donors would lead to an increase of at least 55 donor lungs per year. 26 …”
Section: Transplantmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 23 Following the publication of a clinical trial in the New England Journal of Medicine on the use of heart and lung transplants from hepatitis C-infected donors to uninfected recipients, 24 an important invited editorial in the Journal provided expert insight on a strategy of using hepatitis C-infected donor lungs in combination with antiviral agents to expand the pool of donor organs. 25 This approach has also been supported in a study that stratified all deceased organ donors from 2015 to 2018 by hepatitis C status using Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data and estimated that transplanting lungs from hepatitis C positive donors would lead to an increase of at least 55 donor lungs per year. 26 …”
Section: Transplantmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Approximately 9% of deceased donor kidney transplants involved organs with a Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) score ≥ 86, which may be associated with shortened allograft survival as opposed to a low KDPI donor. Further, an increased usage of Hepatitis C positive donors in solid organ transplant, has been anticipated to further increase donor availability and shorten "wait list times" for critically ill recipients [1][2][3]. Nevertheless, a sobering 120,000 patients in the U.S. remain on the UNOS transplant list including more than 100,000 ESRD patients.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%