additional source for heart transplantation over the past 5 years. Despite excellent short-term
outcomes reported in Australia 1 and the United Kingdom, 2 current DCD heart
transplantation experience remains limited because of concerns about susceptibility of the
DCD heart to ischemia reperfusion injury following the unavoidable warm ischemic time
(WIT) that occurs after withdrawal from life support (WLS). In a recent analysis of clinical …