Increasing the United States heart transplant donor pool with donation after circulatory death.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.09.080 and PMC identifier 7103537.
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Donor Selection
- Heart Failure
- Heart Transplantation
- Shock
- Tissue Donors
- Waiting Lists