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Ann Thorac Surg 1989;48:882-886
© 1989 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Organ procurement for pulmonary transplantation

Departments of Surgery and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

^_* Address reprint requests to Dr Griffith, Department of Surgery, 1084 Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh PA 15261.

Selection of suitable donors is critical to the success of clinical pulmonary transplantation. Requirements for lung donors, management before explantation, and methods of preservation were reviewed for the 70 heart-lung, eight double-lung, and two single-lung transplantations performed at the University of Pittsburgh since 1982. Careful observation of trends of hyperoxygenation studies, chest roentgenograms, and Gram stain and culture results of tracheal secretions, as well as findings on bronchoscopy, can help identify which lungs not only have adequate function but are acceptable for transplantation. In spite of the rigid criteria used, 76% of tracheal cultures from donors deemed acceptable grew organisms. The presence of oropharyngeal flora has been shown to correlate with the development of early intrathoradci infections in the recipient. Prophylactic broadspectrum antibiotic treatment of the donor is desirable to treat microbial contamination that could cause focal injury to the donor lung and predispose to infection in the recipient. Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.

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