Donation after Circulatory Death Determination and Ten-Year Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplantation

This report was marred with ethical controversy. It was argued that reanimation of the donor heart invalidates the donor circulatory death determination, since circulatory death in the United States is defined by irreversible cardiac arrest. The resulting legal ambiguity stifled further DCD heart transplantation activity in America.2 However, the introduction of ex-situ heart perfusion and donor normothermic regional perfusion for functional assessment as well as further development of the relevant legal and ethical frameworks allowed pioneers in Australia and the United Kingdom to resume transplanting adult DCD hearts.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: Research Correspondence Source Type: research