Combating Donor Organ Shortage: Organ Care System Prolonging Organ Storage Time and Improving the Outcome of Heart Transplantations

Table 1

Study Characteristics.

Study Characteristics
Studies	Year	Subjects	N		Donor Criteria
			Cold Storage	OCS
Saez et al. [7]	2014	Humans	-	26	Extended
Koerner et al. [8]	2014	Humans	130	29	Standard
Yeter et al. [9]	2014	Humans	-	21	Extended
Saez et al. [10]	2015	Porcine Model	-	5	Donation after circulatory death (DCD)
Iyer et al. [11]	2015	Juvenile Landrace pigs	3	7	Donation after circulatory death (DCD)
Saez et al. [12]	2015	cf-LVAD patients	15	15	Standard
Ardehali et al. [13]	2015	Humans	63	67	Standard
Stamp et al. [14]	2015	Human	-	1	Standard
Dhital et al. [15]	2015	Humans	-	3	Donation after circulatory death (DCD)
Chan et al. [16]	2017	Humans	19	19	Standard

Extended donor criteria - donor hearts with a high risk of an adverse donor-recipient profile.