Distant Graft Procurement for Combined Heart and Lung Transplantation Using Pulmonary Artery Flush and Simple Topical Hypothermia for Graft Preservation

• Published in: The Annals of thoracic surgery Vol. 43; no. 6; pp. 670 - 673
• Main Authors: Baldwin, John C., Frist, William H., Starkey, Thomas D., Harjula, Ari, Starnes, Vaughn A., Stinson, Edward B., Oyer, Philip E., Shumway, Norman E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.06.1987; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Eisenmenger Complex - surgery; Female; Heart Arrest, Induced; Heart Transplantation; Heart-Lung Transplantation; Humans; Hypothermia, Induced - methods; Immunosuppression - methods; Lung Transplantation; Medical sciences; Organ Preservation - methods; Pulmonary Artery; Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases; Surgery of the heart; Therapeutic Irrigation; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Heart; Human; Surgery; Lung; Conservation; Cardiovascular disease; Graft; Pulmonary vascular disease; Eisenmenger syndrome; Homotransplantation; Hypothermia
• ISSN: 0003-4975; 1552-6259
• DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(10)60249-4

Although combined heart and lung transplantation has great potential for improving survival and rehabilitation in selected patients with pulmonary vascular disease, the lack of suitable donor organs has restricted the number of operations performed. We report a heart and lung transplantation operation for Eisenmenger's syndrome in which distant donor graft procurement was used with a simple system for preservation.