TY - JOUR
T1 - Donor lung procurement
T2 - Assessment and operative technique
AU - Sundaresan, Sudhir
AU - Trachiotis, Gregory D.
AU - Aoe, Motoi
AU - Patterson, G. Alexander
AU - Cooper, Joel D.
PY - 1993/12
Y1 - 1993/12
N2 - Given the relative scarcity of suitable donors and the widespread application of cardiac and pulmonary transplantation, it is imperative that a heart and two lungs be extracted from each donor. From increasing clinical experience and laboratory investigation in lung preservation, more flexible criteria for the assessment of potential lung donors are emerging. In this communication, we present our current criteria of donor lung suitability, and a simple and reliable technique of combined cardiopulmonary extraction that has provided suitable heart and lung grafts with excellent preservation, used in our last 150 donor organ procurements.
AB - Given the relative scarcity of suitable donors and the widespread application of cardiac and pulmonary transplantation, it is imperative that a heart and two lungs be extracted from each donor. From increasing clinical experience and laboratory investigation in lung preservation, more flexible criteria for the assessment of potential lung donors are emerging. In this communication, we present our current criteria of donor lung suitability, and a simple and reliable technique of combined cardiopulmonary extraction that has provided suitable heart and lung grafts with excellent preservation, used in our last 150 donor organ procurements.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0027739938&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/0003-4975(93)90699-I
DO - 10.1016/0003-4975(93)90699-I
M3 - Article
C2 - 8267453
AN - SCOPUS:0027739938
SN - 0003-4975
VL - 56
SP - 1409
EP - 1413
JO - The Annals of thoracic surgery
JF - The Annals of thoracic surgery
IS - 6
ER -