Expanding the Donor Pool in Heart Transplantation: Current Strategies and Future Perspectives

Moderator(s)

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  Yasir Abu-Omar, MD PhD FRCS

  Cardiac Surgeon Director of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support
  University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
  Cleveland, Ohio, United States

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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  Ezequiel Molina, MD

  Surgical Director, LVAD and Heart Transplant Program
  Piedmont Health
  Atlanta, Georgia, United States

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentations:

• 3:00 PM – 3:10 PM PT

  Donation after circulatory death does not worsen survival after heart transplant for patients with mechanical circulatory support
  

  Erin M. Schumer, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Washington University
• 3:10 PM – 3:20 PM PT

  Developments in Transplantation: DCD, Machine-based Perfusion, Xenotransplantation, and UNOS Allocation System Changes
  

  David D'Alessandro, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital
• 3:20 PM – 3:30 PM PT

  Longer Time Between Hospital Admission and Brain Death Declaration Correlates to Favorable Donor Characteristics but Decreased Acceptance: A Missed Opportunity?
  

  Jason Greenberg, MD – University of Southern California
• 3:30 PM – 3:40 PM PT

  The Use of Donor Hearts 50 Years or Older to Septuagenarians in Heart Transplant: The Potential of Expanding the Donor Pool in Older Patients and Increasing the Availability of Younger Hearts
  

  Suguru Ohira, MD, PhD – Westchester Medical Center
• 3:40 PM – 3:50 PM PT

  Does Aggressive Utilization of Marginal Donor Organs at High-Volume Centers Affect Center-Level Heart Transplant Outcomes?
  

  Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar, MD, MBE – University of Colorado
• 3:50 PM – 4:00 PM PT

  Expert Commentary / Pushing the Edge on Donor Selection
  

  Victor Pretorius, MBchB – UCSD