Heart Procurement from a Donor on Venovenous ECMO Support. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • We report the case of a 37-year-old woman with acute respiratory distress syndrome and became a candidate for organ donation after anoxic brain injury and was on a venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) support. On preoperative evaluation and gross examination, the donor's heart was acceptable for heart transplantation to a 62-year-old female patient with a history of nonischemic cardiomyopathy with a HeartMate II mechanical assist device. Orthotopic heart transplantation was successfully performed in the recipient. We report a case that suggests that the procurement of a heart from a donor on ECMO support can potentially expand the donor heart pool in carefully selected patients.

publication date

  • January 1, 2016

Research

keywords

  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Heart Transplantation
  • Tissue Donors
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4850090

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84946434026

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.ijscr.2015.02.054

PubMed ID

  • 26536537

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 62

issue

  • 3