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First Experience With Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion for Initially Discarded Donor Lungs in the Netherlands: A Single-Centre Study

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Submitted by

Claire Vernon

Source

Source Name: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezy373

Author(s)

Zhang L. Zhang, Vincent van Suylen, Judith E van Zanden, Caroline Van De Wauwer, Erik A. M. Verschuuren, Wim van der Bij, Michiel E. Erasmus

Zhang and colleagues retrospectively compared outcomes for 27 patients who underwent lung transplantation either with or without ex vivo lung perfusion at their center. The ex vivo lung perfusion group consisted of recipients who received initially-discarded donor lungs that were reconditioned using ex vivo perfusion. Similar outcomes were observed between the two groups, including primary graft dysfunction, pulmonary function, chronic lung allograft dysfunction, and survival.