Lung donation following SARS-CoV-2 infection

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There have been over 177 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide, many of whom could be organ donors. Concomitantly, there is an anticipated increase in the need for donor lungs due to expanding indications. Given that the respiratory tract is most commonly affected by COVID-19, there is an urgent need to develop donor assessment criteria while demonstrating safety and "efficacy" of lung donation following COVID-19 infection. Accordingly, we report an intentional transplant using lungs from a donor with recent, microbiologically confirmed, COVID-19 infection into a recipient suffering from COVID-19 induced ARDS and pulmonary fibrosis. In addition to the standard clinical assays, both donor and recipient lungs were analyzed using RNAscope, which confirmed that tissues were negative for SARS-CoV-2. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated colocalized KRT17+ basaloid-like epithelium and COL1A1+ fibroblasts, a marker suggestive of lung fibrosis in COVID-19 associated lung disease, in the explanted recipient lungs but absent in the donor lungs. We demonstrate that following a thorough assessment, lung donation following resolved COVID-19 infection is safe and feasible.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons - 21(2021), 12 vom: 13. Dez., Seite 4073-4078

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Querrey, Melissa [VerfasserIn]
Kurihara, Chitaru [VerfasserIn]
Manerikar, Adwaiy [VerfasserIn]
Garza-Castillon, Rafael [VerfasserIn]
Lysne, Jeffrey [VerfasserIn]
Tomic, Rade [VerfasserIn]
Budinger, Gr Scott [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Samuel [VerfasserIn]
Lung, Kalvin [VerfasserIn]
Yeldandi, Anjana [VerfasserIn]
Bharat, Ankit [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Case Reports
Clinical research/practice
Donors and donation
Lung transplantation/pulmonology
Lung transplantation: living donor
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 03.12.2021

Date Revised 02.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/ajt.16777

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM328770914