Combined Heart-Lung Transplantation from a Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) Donor

We present the case of a critically ill 24-year-old man, who after waiting over 100 days in-hospital on the urgent transplant list, deteriorated further and underwent the first successful heart-lung transplant with organs from a donation after circulatory death (DCD) donor.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - August 19, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Simon Messer, Yasir Abu-Omar, Stephen R. Large, Marius Berman, Aravinda Page, Pradeep Kaul, JE Arrowsmith, Richard Quigley, Caitlin Cheshire, Caroline Patterson, Debra Thomas, John Wallwork, Jasvir Parmar, Pedro Catarino Tags: Innovation Article Source Type: research