The Donation after Circulatory Death Donor can be a Source of Organs for Cardiac Transplantation
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The Donation after Circulatory Death Donor can be a Source of Organs for Cardiac Transplantation
The number of heart transplants performed worldwide is declining annually [1-3]. The conventional source of donor hearts, the brainstem dead cadaveric heart-beating donor. is decreasing. Advances in neurosurgical treatment of patients with severe head injury and intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) mean that the increase in intracranial pressure (ICH) which previously precipitated ischemic brain-stem...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2155-9880
DOI: 10.4172/2155-9880.s9-007