Survival, graft function, and incidence of allograft vasculopathy in heart transplant patients receiving adverse risk profile donor hearts

Abstract

Long-term survival and graft function were excellent in patients receiving ARP grafts. Older grafts were associated with CAV but did not influence survival. Thus, the strategy of expanding availability using ARP grafts seems safe.

Fishing in the thoracic organ donor pool: What next if the catch of the day got infected with hepatitis C virus?

“…As scarcity of good-quality organs continues to be a challenge, the thoracic transplantation community has constantly explored new avenues to enlarge the organ donor pool through the use of extended-criteria heart 5 and lung donors 6 and living lobar LTx 7 with good recipient outcomes. More recently, successful transplantation of hearts 8 and lungs 9 recovered from donors after circulatory death has been reported, including donation from euthanasia patients.…”

Left ventricle myocardium hypertrophy of donor heart: the results and outlook

“…проанализировали выживаемость на основании показателей 4 625 реципиентов сердца, причем в 943 случаях донором явились женщины. Показано, что половые различия между реципиентом и донором являются предиктором худшего прогноза только при использовании сердец от доноров-женщин для реципиентов-мужчин, за исключением случаев «возрастных» доноров, однако и в тех случаях прослеживалась тенденция к худшему прогнозу [30,34,35].…”