Heart Transplantation

N Chrysakis, DE Magouliotis, K Spiliopoulos… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Heart transplantation (HTx) remains the last therapeutic resort for patients with advanced
heart failure. The present work is a clinically focused review discussing current issues in …

Association of pre-exiting heart failure with long-term mortality and the recurrence of sepsis

JW Zhu, XP Hu, J Jin, B Xu, R Zhang, S Ye, FX Gong… - Scientific Reports, 2025 - nature.com
This retrospective cohort study aimed to evaluate the association between pre-existing heart
failure and both mortality and the recurrence of sepsis. A total of 16,092 sepsis patients …

Short-Term Outcomes Among Lung Transplant Recipients from SARS-CoV-2+ Donors and Evaluation of Lung Function Among SARS-CoV-2+ Donors

T Endo, J Trivedi, EM Schumer, VH van Berkel… - Transplantation …, 2024 - Elsevier
There are reports of successful lung transplants using SARS-CoV-2+ donors, but the data on
their overall outcome is limited. We used the United Network for Organ Sharing Database …

[HTML][HTML] Successful heart transplantation from a COVID‐19‐positive donor: A clinical case report

M Meidani, M Moradi, F Ghiasvand… - Clinical Case Reports, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Organ transplantation is a major concern during the current COVID‐19 pandemic worldwide.
The use of COVID‐19‐positive organ donors has raised widespread concerns in the field of …

Orthotopic Liver Transplantation of a SARS-CoV-2 Negative Recipient from a Positive Donor: The Border between Uncertainty and Necessity in a Pandemic Era-Case …

G Droc, C Martac, CG Buzatu, M Jipa, MD Punga… - Medicina, 2023 - mdpi.com
(1) Introduction: Liver transplantation represents the gold-standard therapy in eligible
patients with acute liver failure or end-stage liver disease. The COVID-19 pandemic …

[HTML][HTML] Transplanting COVID-19–Positive Donor Hearts: A Previous Threat, Now an Opportunity

KH Schlendorf, AE Woolley - Heart Failure, 2023 - jacc.org
In March 2020, as hospitals across the country were reeling from the catastrophic impacts of
SARS-CoV-2, the United Network of Organ Sharing appropriately introduced organ refusal …