Lung transplantation nowadays is a well-accepted and routine treatment for well selected
patients with terminal respiratory disease. However, it took several decades of experimental …

This review outlines the new and promising technique of ex vivo lung perfusion and its
clinical potential to increase the number of transplantable lungs and to improve the early …

PURPOSE: This article describes an ex vivo method to recondition and transplant rejected
donor lungs. DESCRIPTION: A 19-year-old man was brain dead after a traffic accident. A …

Donation-after-Determination-of-Cardiac-Death (DDCD) donor lungs can potentially
increase the pool of lungs available for Lung Transplantation (LTx). This paper presents the …

OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine long-term outcomes at the University of Wisconsin for all
lung transplant recipients who received lungs from donation after cardiac death donors …

Since the first successful lung transplant 30 years ago, lung transplantation has rapidly
become an established standard of care to treat end-stage lung disease in selected patients …

Rationale: Donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) has the potential to
increase the number of organs available for transplantation. Because consent and …

Despite a worldwide need to expand the lung donor pool, approximately 75% of lung offers
are not accepted for transplantation. We investigated the impact of liberalizing lung donor …

Donation-after cardiac death (DCD) donor organs have potential to significantly alleviate the
shortage of transplantable lungs. However, only limited data so far describes DCD lung …

BACKGROUND: Donation after cardiac death (DCD) to overcome the donor organ shortage
is now moving into the clinical setting, but the medium-term outcome after DCD lung …