title: Organ procurement from donors deceased from cardiac death: a single-center efficiency assessment.
abstract: Organ donation after cardiac death has been used for kidney and liver procurement in France since 2006. Until recently, most teams relied on in situ cold perfusion to prepare the donor before organ retrieval. Our team has used since 2007 normothermic abdominal recirculation. While this technique is presumed to be more difficult to implement, it also ensures a lower rate of primary nonfunction when compared to in situ cold perfusion. We present the efficiency results of our organ donation after cardiac death program. After 3 years, we have been able to establish a program in which we use normothermic abdominal recirculation in 97% of donors after cardiac death. The yearly efficiency of this program is comparable to the national efficiency of organ procurement from conventional deceased donors in France.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Urologie et de Transplantation Rénale et Pancréatique, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpétriêre, Paris, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Billault
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Godfroy
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Thibaut
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bart
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Arzouk
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Van Glabeke
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fehri
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ourahma
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nicolas-Robin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Barrou
mesh_terms: D003643:Death; D004526:Efficiency; D005602:France; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D010477:Perfusion; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014019:Tissue Donors; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D014180:Transplantation / Q000379:methods