The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation
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J. Heart Lung Transplant. · Jun 1999
Lung transplant waiting list: differential outcome of type of end-stage lung disease, one year after registration.
Donor lung scarcity, distinct natural courses of the different types of end-stage lung diseases, and lung allocation schemes demand appropriate candidate acceptance for a lung transplant and time of listing. This study was undertaken to investigate the association between type of end-stage lung disease and outcome, 1 year after a lung transplant candidate was put on the waiting list. ⋯ The type of end-stage lung disease is a distinctive factor for predicting survival on the lung and heart-lung transplant waiting list, and should be taken into account whenever assessing waiting list outcomes. When developing lung allocation schemes, it is medically justified to incorporate the type of end-stage lung disease.
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J. Heart Lung Transplant. · Jun 1999
Successful orthotopic pig heart transplantation from non-heart-beating donors.
With the aim to expand the severely limited donor pool by use of non-heart-beating donors we developed a technique for successful transplantation of hearts after 30 minutes of normothermic ischemia without donor pretreatment. ⋯ The results indicate that (a) successful pig heart transplantation after 30 minutes of normothermic ischemia is possible without donor pretreatment, and (b) that HOE 642 improves posttransplant LVSWImax significantly.