Emerging Frontier in Heart Transplantation: Donation After Circulatory Death – American College of Cardiology
Quick Takes Machine perfusion enabled the success of DCD heart transplant by mitigating previous deleterious effects of warm ischemia. DCD and DBD heart transplant have similar outcomes. Widespread adoption of DCD heart transplant can expand the donor pool, resulting in increased transplant volume and decreased waitlist times. Figure 1 Courtesy of Lee C, Tsai C, Adler E,…