Lung transplantation. Donor selection.
The demand for donor lungs currently exceeds the supply of suitable grafts by a significant margin. Legal backgrounds and organizational and logistic issues are of major impact on the available donor pool. Re-evaluation of the donor criteria currently in use and new, innovative approaches such as living donor lung transplantation and non-heart-beating donation will hopefully contribute to improve this situation and reduce waiting time and waiting list mortality.
D001926:Brain Death / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D019520:Living Donors / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D018579:Patient Selection; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*