The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume 22, Issue 11 , Pages 1183-1200 , November 2003

A review of lung transplant donor acceptability criteria

  • Jonathan B Orens, MD

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jonathan B. Orens, MD, Johns Hopkins University, 600 North Wolfe Street, Blalock 910, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA. Telephone: 410-955-3467. Fax: 410-955-0036.
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  • Annette Boehler, MD

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Marc de Perrot, MD

      Affiliations

    • Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Marc Estenne, MD

      Affiliations

    • Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Allan R Glanville, MD, FRACP

      Affiliations

    • St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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  • Shaf Keshavjee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Robert Kotloff, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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  • Judith Morton, MBBS, FRACP

      Affiliations

    • St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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  • Sean M Studer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Dirk Van Raemdonck, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital, Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
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  • Thomas Waddel, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCSC

      Affiliations

    • Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Gregory I Snell, MBBS, FRACP

      Affiliations

    • Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Australia

Received 2 November 2002 ,Accepted 22 January 2003.

  • Image Result

    Cadaveric donors offered (≥ 1 organ) and lungs recovered and transplanted, January 1999 to November 2001. Filled bars: donors offered; diagonally lined bars: lung donors; vertically lined bars: lungs

    Cadaveric donors offered (≥ 1 organ) and lungs recovered and transplanted, January 1999 to November 2001. Filled bars: donors offered; diagonally lined bars: lung donors; vertically lined bars: lungs recovered; horizontally lined bars: lungs transplanted. (data source: UNOS/OPTN, as of March 29, 2002).

  • Image Result
    Yearly increase in the number of patients waiting, lung transplants performed and deaths while on the waiting list. (From Trulock, Semin Resp Crit Care Med, 2001 [UNOS data] with permission).

    Yearly increase in the number of patients waiting, lung transplants performed and deaths while on the waiting list. (From Trulock, Semin Resp Crit Care Med, 2001 [UNOS data] with permission).

PII: S1053-2498(03)00096-2

doi: 10.1016/S1053-2498(03)00096-2

The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume 22, Issue 11 , Pages 1183-1200 , November 2003

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