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.
Faraj
Walid
W
King's College London School of Medicine at King's College Hospital, Institute of Liver Studies, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London SE5 9RS, UK.
Marangoni
Gabriele
G
Dar
Faisal
F
Mukherji
Deborah
D
Heaton
Nigel
N
Muiesan
Paolo
P
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