Determining optimal donor heart ischemic times in adult cardiac transplantation.

Paul C TangXiaoting WuMin ZhangDonald LikoskyJonathan W HaftIenglam LeiAshraf Abou El ElaMing-Sing SiKeith D AaronsonFrancis D Pagani

Published in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2022)

The donor heart IT threshold for survival determined from unbiased statistical modeling occurs at 3 h. With longer preservation times, transplantation with O donor hearts was associated with worse survival.

Keyphrases

heart failure
atrial fibrillation
left ventricular
cell therapy
stem cells
ischemia reperfusion injury
oxidative stress
young adults
brain injury
subarachnoid hemorrhage
childhood cancer