Moving Beyond the Perfect Donor
Our interdisciplinary, multipronged interventions doubled our donor heart utilization rate and significantly reduced missed viable opportunities without compromising short-term heart transplant recipient outcomes.
Authors
- Alexander Breitenstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4440-2947)
- David Belzile (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6382-9882)
- Heather Joan Ross (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4384-3027)
- Filio Billia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2824-1215)
- Adriana Luk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3042-4210)
- Lebei Pi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8188-616X)
- Yasbanoo Moayedi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3288-7393)
- Juan Duero Posada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6118-4200)
- Vivek Rao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1920-0937)
- Michael McDonald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8026-9274)
- Chun‐Po Steve Fan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1278-0118)
- Deepali Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1961-0477)
- Marisa Signorile (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-1903)
- Natasha Aleksova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-7851)
- Aneesh Venkatraman
- Jeremy Kobulnik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5417-2866)
- Ana Carolina Alba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2744-2696)
- Juglans Alvarez
- Nitish Dhingra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7200-6204)
Institutions
- University Health Network (CA)
- Women's College Hospital (CA)
- Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (CA)
- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JACC Advances
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.101712
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.02