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Uncontrolled DCD lungs can survive the donor’s death for an afterlife dimension in another body
Author(s) -
Van Raemdonck Dirk,
Ceulemans Laurens J.,
Neyrinck Arne
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/ajt.15868
Subject(s) - medicine , afterlife , lung transplantation , transplantation , lung , surgery , theology , philosophy
The Toronto Lung Transplant Group reported safe transplantation of DCD lungs when preceded with prior ex situ perfusion of pulmonary allografts for functional testing. See Healey et al's article on page 1574.