James L Bernat, Kiran K Khush, Sam D Shemie, Matthew G Hartwig, Peter P Reese, Anne Dalle Ave, J D Brendan Parent, Alexandra K Glazier, Alexander M Capron, Matt Craig, Teneille Gofton, Elisa J Gordon, Andrew Healey, Mary E Homan, Keren Ladin, Simon Messer, Nick Murphy, Thomas A Nakagawa, William F Parker, Rebecca D Pentz, David Rodríguez-Arias, Bryanna Schwartz, Daniel P Sulmasy, Robert D Truog, Anji E Wall, Stephen P Wall, Paul Root Wolpe, Kathleen N Fenton
In a workshop sponsored by the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, experts identified current knowledge gaps and research opportunities in the scientific, conceptual, and ethical understanding of organ donation after the circulatory determination of death and its technologies. To minimize organ injury from warm ischemia and produce better recipient outcomes, innovative techniques to perfuse and oxygenate organs postmortem in situ, such as thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion, are being implemented in several medical centers in the US and elsewhere...
March 1, 2024: Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation