Perioperative period in cardiac transplantation from donors with brain death due to methanol poisoning

• Published in: Vestnik transplantologii i iskusstvennykh organov Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 41 - 46
• Main Authors: V. N. Poptsov, E. A. Spirina, V. V. Pchelnikov, S. G. Ukhrenkov, S. A. Masyutin, V. Yu. Voronkov, E. A. Aliev, S. Yu. Ustin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Federal Research Center of Transplantology and Artificial Organs named after V.I.Shumakov 14-04-2017
• Subjects: heart transplantation; methanol poisoning
• ISSN: 1995-1191
• DOI: 10.15825/1995-1191-2017-1-41-46

The successful use of donor hearts from people died of methanol poisoning helps reducing the deficit of donor organs for patients requiring urgent cardiac transplantation [3]. We present our experience of successful cardiac transplantations from 2 donors who died due to methanol poisoning. Given the possibility of performing a cardiac transplant from this group of donors a protocol has been developed at the V.I. Shumakov Federal Research Center of Transplantology and Artificial Organs of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation which includes clinical, laboratory and instrumental criteria for the selection of heart donor and recipient. The possibility of delayed onset myocardial contractile dysfunction due to methanol poisoning means that a longer conditioningperiod is vital as well as compulsory clinical, laboratory and expert chocardiographic examinations of the potential donor heart.