Combined heart –lung transplantation from a donation after circulatory death donor

We present the case of a critically ill 24-year-old man, who after waiting for>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.

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, J.E. Arrowsmith, Richard Quigley, Caitlin Cheshire, Caroline Patterson, Debra Thomas, John Wallwork, Jasvir Parmar, Pedro Catarino Tags: INNOVATION Source Type: research