Heart Donation After Cardiac Death: Preliminary Study on an Isolated, Perfused Swine Heart After 20 Minutes of Normothermic Ischemia

We reported no cardiac functional and metabolic recovery in the DCD group after normothermic ischemia and reperfusion, which indicates that a single immersion of the cardiac graft during storage does not provide an optimal protection. New strategies in heart preservation are necessary for recruiting heart donation after cardiac death.