Successful clinical transplantation of hearts donated after circulatory death using direct procurement followed by hypothermic oxygenated perfusion: A report of the first 3 cases

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: Janne.brouckaert@uzleuven.be.
• ² Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ³ LCGO Leuven Cooperating Group for Organ Donation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁴ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁵ Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁶ Department of Abdominal Transplantation Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁷ Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁸ Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.