Liver transplantation from a non-heart-beating donor after pulmonary failure: report of a case.
We report a case of successful liver transplantation after controlled donor after cardiac death procurement from a donor who died of pulmonary failure. The donor was a 28-year-old woman with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, whose life support could not continue when her condition deteriorated rapidly while waiting for a suitable donor for lung transplantation. She was on noninvasive negative pressure ventilatory support before the donor organs were procured.
King's College London School of Medicine at King's College Hospital, Institute of Liver Studies, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London SE5 9RS, UK.
Walid
W
Faraj
Gabriele
G
Marangoni
Faisal
F
Dar
Deborah
D
Mukherji
Nigel
N
Heaton
Paolo
P
Muiesan
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D054990:Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000150:complications*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology*; D014019:Tissue Donors; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods; D028761:Withholding Treatment