Uncontrolled Donation After Circulatory Death : A Unique Opportunity

Uncontrolled donation after circulatory death (uDCD) refers to donation from persons who die following an unexpected and unsuccessfully resuscitated cardiac arrest. Despite the large potential for uDCD, programs of this kind only exist in a reduced number of countries with a limited activity. Barriers to uDCD are of a logistical and ethical-legal nature, as well as arising from the lack of confidence in the results of transplants from uDCD donors. The procedure needs to be designed to reduce and limit the impact of the prolonged warm ischemia inherent to the uDCD process, and to deal with the ethical issues that this practice poses: termination of advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation, extension of advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation beyond futility for organ preservation, moment to approach families to discuss donation opportunities, criteria for the determination of death, or the use of normothermic regional perfusion for the in situ preservation of organs. Although the incidence of primary nonfunction and delayed graft function is higher with organs obtained from uDCD donors, overall patient and graft survival is acceptable in kidney, liver, and lung transplantation, with a proper selection and management of both donors and recipients. Normothermic regional perfusion has shown to be critical to achieve optimal outcomes in uDCD kidney and liver transplantation. However, the role of ex situ preservation with machine perfusion is still to be elucidated. uDCD is a unique opportunity to improve patient access to transplantation therapies and to offer more patients the chance to donate organs after death, if this is consistent with their wishes and values.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:104

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Transplantation - 104(2020), 8 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 1542-1552

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Coll, Elisabeth [VerfasserIn]
Miñambres, Eduardo [VerfasserIn]
Sánchez-Fructuoso, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Fondevila, Constantino [VerfasserIn]
Campo-Cañaveral de la Cruz, José Luis [VerfasserIn]
Domínguez-Gil, Beatriz [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 20.10.2020

Date Revised 29.02.2024

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Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1097/TP.0000000000003139

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NLM313083533