Heart-lung transplantation using temperature- and airway pressure-controlled donor organ preservation system
Matthew M Duda, Stefan Elde, Glenn J Pelletier, Marc Leon, Katherine G Verdi, Chawannuch Ruaengsri, Y Joseph Woo, Yasuhiro Shudo · 2026
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Description
Matthew Duda and co-authors report a first heart lung transplant using a controlled preservation system in a 2026 case paper. Keeping donor organs at stable temperature and airway pressure should stretch safe cold time and widen the donor pool. Yet no commercial device was built for a heart and lungs taken as one block.
The team applied a lung preservation system to the combined block for a sixty four year old woman with scleroderma lung disease and heart failure. The donor organs traveled under controlled temperature and pressure and the transplant proceeded safely. The authors call the approach feasible, with outcome gains still to prove. The case is offered as a template for centers facing the same device gap.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Matthew M Duda, Stefan Elde, Glenn J Pelletier, Marc Leon, Katherine G Verdi, Chawannuch Ruaengsri, Y Joseph Woo, Yasuhiro Shudo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |