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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 41, 356-362, Copyright © 1986 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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The cardiac donor: a six-year experience

RW Emery, RC Cork, MM Levinson, JE Riley, J Copeland, MJ McAleer and JG Copeland

From March 1, 1979, to March 1, 1985, the University of Arizona received 223 cardiac donor referrals. Sixty-two were accepted: 15 local, 23 regional (less than 370 km or 200 nautical miles), and 24 distant (370 to 1556 km or 200 to 840 nautical miles). Thirty-eight donor deaths were due to motor vehicle accidents, 10 to gunshot wounds, 6 to cerebral disease, and 8 to other closed-head lesions. The mean time from injury to brain death was 65 +/- 5 hours (+/- standard error of the mean [SEM]) and from brain death to organ donation, 12 +/- 3 hours. The mean ischemic time for the donor hearts ranged from 30 to 233 minutes (mean +/- SEM, 128 +/- 7 minutes). Fifty patients, otherwise acceptable, were refused as cardiac donors because an ABO- compatible recipient was not available. Two regionally procured hearts failed at operation, 1 because of unrecognized donor sepsis and 1 from a patient on large-dose inotropic support. Although there was no difference in myocardial function, median survival with follow-up through June 30, 1985, of patients receiving locally, regionally, and distantly procured organs was 59 months, 18 months, and 21 months, respectively. Cumulative proportion 1-year survival was 93%, 56%, and 61%, respectively. The 2-year survival was 85% for patients given locally procured hearts, 43% for those with regionally procured hearts, and 38% for those with a heart from a distant donor. Survival curves showed significantly longer survival for locally procured organs than regionally or distantly procured organs (p less than 0.05).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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