Donor heart quality control. Analysis of echocardiographic (EC) findings and patient outcome

Transplant International : Official Journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation
T AuerK H Tscheliessnigg

Abstract

In a retrospective analysis, 149 echocardiographic (EC) evaluations were compared with conventional clinical parameters for donor heart selection. Of these cases, 12% were found with severe impairment of ventricular wall motion or with morphological abnormalities. Nearly half of the echocardiographically diagnosed pathological findings in donor hearts were not detected by conventional standards for heart screening. Analysis of EC-screened donor heart outcome showed a primary graft nonfunction rate of 3.1%. We suggest EC as an additional screening instrument for further dynamic and morphological information about donor heart condition. Potential donors can be saved for transplantation and severe complications can be avoided by detecting occult cardiac dysfunction. Early detection of cardiac dysfunction may have an impact on donor therapy and can avoid unnecessary and expensive transportation of the surgical team to the harvest site.

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