228 Therapeutic Effect of Surfactant Inhalation on Lungs Donated after Cardiac Death in a Canine Lung Transplantation Model

Abstract

In lung transplantation, donation after cardiac death (DCD) has been introduced worldwide. To date, several programs have reported acceptable outcomes; however, the number of patients on waiting lists is indeed much more than that of the donated organs. Therefore, we considered the effective use of marginal donor grafts from uncontrolled DCD donors by investigating the effect of surfactant inhalation against pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury in canine lungs from DCD donors.