This retrospective analysis of the UNOS registry investigated patients after the latest allocation revision and examined whether ex vivo heart perfusion (EVHP) mitigated ischemic penalties in adult donation-after-brain-death heart transplants with preservation times of six hours or more. Among 546 recipients who met the criteria (320 receiving EVHP and 226 undergoing static/hypothermic storage), EVHP was associated with superior one-year survival (92.5 percent vs 86.3 percent, p=0.029) and three-year survival (90.9 percent vs 79.6 percent, p
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Ex Vivo Heart Perfusion Offsets Ischemic Penalties With ≥6-Hour Preservation in Adult Donation-After-Brain-Death Heart Transplantation
Submitted by: Mujtaba Mubashir
Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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Author(s): Alexander R. Berg, Aravind Krishnan, Elbert E. Heng, Ashley Y. Choi, Alice Zhou, Daniel I. Alnasir, Y. Chawannuch Ruaengsri, Yasuhiro Shudo, Y. Joseph Woo, John W. MacArthur
