Open AccessDCD donations and outcomes of heart transplantation: the Australian experience
Author(s) -
K. Dhital,
Prakash Ludhani,
S. Scheuer,
M. Connellan,
Peter Macdonald
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-020-00998-x
Subject(s) - medicine , heart transplantation , transplantation , cardiac surgery , donation , surgery , cohort , cardiology , economics , economic growth
There is increasing clinical utilization of hearts from the donation after circulatory death (DCD) pathway with the aim of expanding the donor pool and mitigating the ever-present discrepancy between the inadequate availability of good quality donor hearts and the rising number of patients with end-stage heart failure.