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Establishing designated regional DCD heart centers using normothermic regional perfusion could vastly expand access to quality donor hearts and increase the number of heart transplants.
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of donation after circulatory death (DCD) hearts for transplantation.1 Successful reports from Australia and the United Kingdom ignited interest in the United States to re-evaluate these approaches to DCD donors.2-4 Estimates suggest that heart transplantation in the United States could expand by as much as 20% if DCD programs could be successfully launched. If these estimates are true, successful strategies to use this previously untapped source of donor hearts could potentially initiate the largest expansion in heart transplantation in recent years.
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Moazami et al. (2022) conducted an editorial in Heart transplantation from donation after circulatory death (n=8). Normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) was evaluated on Survival.
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