TY - JOUR AU - Liersch-Nordqvist, Annika AU - Ingemansson, Richard AU - Pierre, Leif AU - Hlebowicz, Joanna AU - Lindstedt, Sandra PY - 2015 DA - 2015/10/23 TI - Lungs exposed to 1 hour warm ischemia without heparin before harvesting might be suitable candidates for transplantation JO - Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery SP - 131 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - The limiting factor for lung transplantation is the lack of donor organs. The usage of lungs from donation after cardiac death (DCD) would dramatically increase donor availability. In the present paper we wanted to investigate lungs exposed to 1 h of warm ischemia without heparin followed by flush-perfusion and cold storage compared to lungs harvested from heart beating donors (HBD) using standard harvesting technique. SN - 1749-8090 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-015-0339-1 DO - 10.1186/s13019-015-0339-1 ID - Liersch-Nordqvist2015 ER -