Abstract
Cold preservation of donor organs is the standard practise in lung transplantation and is regarded reasonably successful as long as ischemia times are not excessive and donor organ quality is high. The donor organ shortage and growing waiting lists have, however, forced transplant programs to accept longer ischemic times and increasingly marginal donor organs. Normothermic perfusion of marginal donor lungs for evaluation has been described by various groups, but all devices used to date are static. Here, we report on the use of the portable organ care system (OCS, Transmedics Inc.) device for concomitant preservation, transport and evaluation of donor lungs.
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