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The Critical Role of Retrograde Flush in Lung Procurement and Thromboembolic Mitigation

    The scarcity of viable donor organs remains a restrictive bottleneck in thoracic transplantation. To expand the donor pool, transplant networks increasingly utilize "extended-criteria" or marginal donor lungs. However,..

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Partial Heart and Lung Transplantation with Two Recipients from One Donor

    Partial Heart and Lung Transplantation: Maximizing Donor Organ Utilization Through Two-Recipient Transplantation Partial heart and lung transplantation is an innovative organ utilization strategy that allows transplantation of thoracic..

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Managing complex congenital anomalies during multi-organ donor procurement

    Managing complex congenital anomalies during multi-organ donor procurement requires precise surgical tailoring to preserve the structural integrity of the heart. When faced with a donor harboring both a..

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Total trans septal approach and DCD rapid recovery

  Oxygenated Cardioplegia (OCP) using a blood-based vehicle represents a significant shift from traditional cold crystalloid preservation during multi-organ heart and lung procurements. By leveraging a mixture of oxygenated donor..

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Complex Heart-Lung Procurement and Back-Table Reconstruction

    Navigating the Anatomical Storm: Complex Heart-Lung Procurement and Back-Table Reconstruction   In the high-stakes arena of cardiothoracic transplantation, procurement surgery is often treated as a standardized exercise. Surgeons..

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Bilateral Pneumonectomy + Lung Transplant with Dynamic ECMO Support (DREAM-style strategy)

  Conceptual Framework: Bilateral Pneumonectomy + Lung Transplant with Dynamic ECMO Support (DREAM-style strategy) 1. Clinical Context & Rationale This scenario typically applies to: * End-stage bilateral lung malignancy confined..

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DCD step by Step for Heart and lung donation

      1. Donor Identification •Identify a potential DCD donor (Maastricht category III or II in some systems). •Patient has devastating neurologic or systemic injury but does not meet..

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Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP)

Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) has become a key strategy to assess, recondition, and safely transplant lungs from DCD (Donation after Circulatory Death) donors, particularly because of warm ischemia exposure...

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Lung-less Patient on VA ECMO waiting for Pericardial reconstructed Lung Left Atrium

An on-pump veno-arterial (VA) ECMO strategy allows safe stabilization and preparation of a lung-less patient while awaiting immediate implantation of the recipient graft. Following bilateral pneumonectomy, VA ECMO provides full..

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Bilateral Lung Transplant

  Cardiopulmonary bypass is established following systemic heparinization to achieve an activated clotting time greater than four hundred and eighty seconds. Arterial cannulation is performed in the ascending aorta, while..

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Heart and Lung Procurement and Transplantation

  Algorithmic Step-by-Step Technique for Combined Heart and Lung Procurement Technique of Dr. Sam Zeraatiannejaddavani, MD ⸻ I. Fundamental Principles Combined heart and lung procurement is a physiology-driven, time-sensitive operation..

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Lung Harvest in Patient with Unilateral PAPVC

Lung Harvest in Patient with Unilateral PAPVC.   Dr.Sam Zeraatian Nejad Davani, CEO of rockingham medical research ADKWA center as well as Head of IUMS transplant and cardiovascular surgery department...

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Lung Harvest in Patient with multiple rib fractures and usage of

Lung Harvest in Patient with multiple rib fractures and usage of.   Dr.Sam Zeraatian Nejad Davani, CEO of rockingham medical research ADKWA center as well as Head of IUMS transplant..

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Preparing lung transplant with Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Device

Preparing the Child lung for transplant into the Adult patient with usage of EVLPD or Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Device a practical application which every Perfusionist should be familiar with...

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Lung procurement with ex vivo lung perfusion

A complete advance series of lung procurement and usage of ex vivo lung perfusion technologies or device either in the presence of pulmonary thromboembolism.   Dr.Sam Zeraatian Nejad Davani, CEO..

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