Impact of donor brain death duration on outcomes following lung transplantation.

CONCLUSIONS: Donor BDD is not associated with post-transplant survival or PGD. Long donor BDD, however, is associated with a decreased risk for acute rejection and improved BOS-free survival. Therefore, lung allografts from donors with a prolonged length of time from brain death until explant should not be viewed less favorably by donor selection centers.
PMID: 31271742 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - June 30, 2019 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Jawitz OK, Raman V, Barac Y, Mulvihill MS, Moore C, Choi AY, Hartwig M, Klapper J Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research