Open AccessImpact of Donor Core Body Temperature on Graft Survival After Heart Transplantation
Author(s) -
Peter Schnuelle,
Urs Benck,
Bernhard K. Krämer,
Benito A. Yard,
Andreas Zuckermann,
Florian Wagner,
Gábor Szabo,
Martin Borggrefe,
Matthias Kretzler,
Jan Gummert
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0000000000002337
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , transplantation , confidence interval , proportional hazards model , cardiology , heart transplantation , dialysis , kidney transplantation , concomitant
A previous donor intervention trial found that induction of mild therapeutic hypothermia in the brain-dead donor reduced the dialysis requirement after kidney transplantation. Consequences on the performance of cardiac allografts after transplantation were not explored to date.