With the expanding burden of advanced heart failure and the scarcity of donor hearts, several innovations in organ procurement and preservation have emerged to help facilitate and improve the clinical outcomes of heart transplantation. This chapter explores donor referral and evaluation, focusing on both brain death and circulatory death donors. In addition, this chapter covers donor heart procurement and preservation techniques.

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Donor Organ Procurement and Preservation

  • Pedro Catarino

摘要

With the expanding burden of advanced heart failure and the scarcity of donor hearts, several innovations in organ procurement and preservation have emerged to help facilitate and improve the clinical outcomes of heart transplantation. This chapter explores donor referral and evaluation, focusing on both brain death and circulatory death donors. In addition, this chapter covers donor heart procurement and preservation techniques.