• ASAIO J. · May 2016

    Case Reports

    Heart Procurement from a Donor on Venovenous ECMO Support.

    • Gopal Singh, Masaki Tsukashita, Mauer Biscotti, Joseph Costa, Daniel Lambert, Matthew Bacchetta, and Hiroo Takayama.
    • From the *Section of Thoracic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York; and †Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
    • ASAIO J. 2016 May 1; 62 (3): e24-6.

    AbstractWe report the case of a 37-year-old woman with acute respiratory distress syndrome and became a candidate for organ donation after anoxic brain injury and was on a venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) support. On preoperative evaluation and gross examination, the donor's heart was acceptable for heart transplantation to a 62-year-old female patient with a history of nonischemic cardiomyopathy with a HeartMate II mechanical assist device. Orthotopic heart transplantation was successfully performed in the recipient. We report a case that suggests that the procurement of a heart from a donor on ECMO support can potentially expand the donor heart pool in carefully selected patients.

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