title: Successful heart transplantation with cardiac allografts exposed to carbon monoxide poisoning.
abstract: The procurement of cardiac allografts from brain-dead donors who have suffered acute carbon monoxide poisoning has, in the past, been considered inadvisable. Two patients have recently undergone successful transplantation at our institution with cardiac allografts from donors who had suffered acute carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide poisoning is not a contraindication to cardiac allograft procurement in the setting of clinical and objective evidence of satisfactory cardiac function.
authors.affiliation: Heart and Heart-Lung Replacement Services, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Bergin
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Esmore
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002249:Carbon Monoxide Poisoning; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000601:surgery; D000075202:Contraindications; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000502:physiology; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014019:Tissue Donors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement