title: Heart Procurement from a Donor on Venovenous ECMO Support.
abstract: We report the case of a 37-year-old woman with acute respiratory distress syndrome and became a candidate for organ donation after anoxic brain injury and was on a venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) support. On preoperative evaluation and gross examination, the donor's heart was acceptable for heart transplantation to a 62-year-old female patient with a history of nonischemic cardiomyopathy with a HeartMate II mechanical assist device. Orthotopic heart transplantation was successfully performed in the recipient. We report a case that suggests that the procurement of a heart from a donor on ECMO support can potentially expand the donor heart pool in carefully selected patients.
authors.affiliation: From the *Section of Thoracic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York; and †Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Gopal
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsukashita
authors.forename: Mauer
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Biscotti
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bacchetta
authors.forename: Hiroo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takayama
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000379:methods*