Miguel M Leiva-Juárez, Andreacarola Urso, Elisabet Arango Tomás, David J Lederer, Pablo Sanchez, Bartley Griffith, R Duane Davis, Mani Daneshmand, Matthew Hartwig, Edward Cantu, Michael J Weyant, Christian Bermudez, Jonathan D'Cunha, Tiago Machuca, Thomas Wozniak, William Lynch, Hassan Nemeh, Michael Mulligan, Tae Song, Michael Jessen, Phillip C Camp, Christiano Caldeira, Bryan Whitson, Daniel Kreisel, Danny Ramzy, Frank D'Ovidio
BACKGROUND: Ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) allows for a reassessment of lung grafts initially deemed unsuitable for transplantation, increasing the available donor pool; however, this requires a pre- and post-EVLP period of cold ischemic time (CIT). Paucity of data exists on how the sequence of cold normothermic-cold preservations affect outcomes. METHODS: A total of 110 patients were retrospectively analyzed. Duration of 3 preservation phases was measured: cold pre-EVLP, EVLP, and cold post-EVLP...
September 2020: Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation