An Adapted Process and Organ Procurement Perspective on Heart Retransplantation for a Healthy Heart's Third Life

As organ procurement organizations nationwide see an increased opportunity to retransplant already transplanted hearts, we would like to share the overview and process of our 2 successful cases. Heart retransplantation increased our cardiac placement rates by 2.64% and 2% in 2015 and 2019, respectively. Spread across a nation that sees over 3500 heart placements annually, a 2% increase would be substantial. Since 2009, our cases stand as the only documented heart retransplantations in the United States. However, United Network for Organ Sharing data shows that potential exists. From a facilitation perspective, we have developed a protocol to ease the matching process. From a surgical perspective, these cases had no complications and saved 2 lives, with each heart now beating in a third person. We hope that by sharing our process and success, we can familiarize fellow organ procurement organizations and transplant communities with this viable opportunity.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) - 31(2021), 3 vom: 24. Sept., Seite 267-270

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nethercot, Darryl C [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Mita [VerfasserIn]
Stocks, Lisa M [VerfasserIn]
Trageser, Jeffrey M [VerfasserIn]
Pretorius, Victor [VerfasserIn]
Morris, Gerald P [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Brain death
Heart transplantation
Journal Article
Patient selection
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Reuse organ transplantation
Tissue and organ procurement

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.10.2021

Date Revised 28.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/15269248211024616

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM326624678