title: Lung Donation After Death Resulting From a Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection.
abstract: The number of lung transplantations performed in the United States has increased at a modest pace over the past decades and reached an all-time high of 2,052 in 2015. However, the transplant wait list mortality remains unacceptably high with approximately one in five patients removed from the list because of death or being too sick for transplantation. The greatest limitation to performing lung transplantations is the relative lack of acceptable lung donors. Here we report the use of lungs from a donor who died as the result of adverse events related to a Stanford type A aortic dissection.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. Electronic address: denlinge@musc.edu.
authors.forename: Chadrick E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Denlinger
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
authors.forename: Bradley
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: LeNoir
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
authors.forename: Timothy P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Whelan
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Paoletti
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
authors.forename: Jacob A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Klapper
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement