Utilizing All the Tools in the ‘Box’ for Heart Transplantation

Purpose: The TransMedics OCS (Andover, MA, USA) normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) device has facilitated the procurement of donation after circulatory death (DCD) donor hearts, as well as marginal brain dead donor (BDD) hearts in our unit since 2014. The XVIVO Heart Box (Gothenburg, Sweden) hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) was introduced to our unit in 2021 with the aim of overcoming prolonged BDD donor ischemic times (DIT). Australia is a geographically dispersed country and the use of machine perfusion enabled distant procurement.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - April 1, 2024 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: , J. Villanueva, S. Emmanuel, D. Cornelius, S. Scheuer, C. Soto, J. Cropper, A. Dinale, D. Kaye, D. McGiffin, A. Iyer, A. Watson, M. Connellan, E. Granger, P. Jansz Source Type: research