Donor Heart Selection: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Providers

Published 20 September 2022

Hannah Copeland, MD; Ivan Knezevic, MD; David A. Baran, MD; Vivek Rao, MD; Michael Pham, MD, MPH; Finn Gustafsson, MD; Sean Pinney, MD; Brian Lima, MD; Marco Masetti, MD; Agnieszka Ciarka, MD; Navin Rajagopalan, MD; Adriana Torres, MD; Eileen Hsich, MD; Jignesh K. Patel, MD; Livia Adams Goldraich, MD; Monica Colvin, MD; Javier Segovia, MD, PhD; Heather Ross, MD; Mahazarin Ginwalla, MD; Babak Sharif-Kashani, MD; MaryJane A. Farr, MD; Luciano Potena, MD; Jon Kobashigawa, MD; Maria G. Crespo-Leiro, MD; Natasha Altman, MD; Florian Wagner, MD; Jennifer Cook, MD; Valentina Stosor, MD; Paolo A. Grossi, MD, PhD; Kiran Khush, MD; Tahir Yagdi, MD; Susan Restaino, MD; Steven Tsui, MD; Daniel Absi, MD; George Sokos, DO; Andreas Zuckermann, MD; Brian Wayda, MD; Joost Felius, PhD; Shelley A. Hall, MD

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The proposed donor heart selection guidelines provide evidence-based and expert-consensus recommendations for the selection of donor hearts following brain death. These recommendations were compiled by an international panel of experts based on an extensive literature review.

This document establishes a foundation of knowledge about donor risk factors, which physicians, surgeons, transplant clinicians, and transplant centers may use as a guide when evaluating a donor heart. All donor heart selection must be evaluated in the context of the heart transplant candidate and what risk is acceptable to that individual.

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