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Heart Procurement From a Donor on Veno-Venous ECMO Support

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Submitted by

Joseph Basha

Source

Source Name: ASAIO Journal

Source URL: http://journals.lww.com/asaiojournal/Abstract/publishahead/Heart_Procurement_Fro…

Author(s)

Singh, Gopal; Tsukashita, Masaki; Biscotti, Mauer; Costa, Joseph; Lambert, Daniel; Bacchetta, Matthew; Takayama, Hiroo

This is a very intersting case review in which the authors describe a successful heart transplant from a 37 year old donor on VV ECMO to a 62 year old female recipeint. The authors postulate that this successful outcome may expand the available donor pool for heart transplantation.