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SynthesisJournal of the American Heart Association2021

Cardiac Graft Assessment in the Era of Machine Perfusion: Current and Future Biomarkers.

Martina Bona, Rahel K Wyss, Maria Arnold, Natalia Méndez-Carmona, Maria N Sanz, Dominik Günsch, Lucio Barile, Thierry P Carrel, Sarah L Longnus

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2024
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  6. Time as a Therapeutic Ally: The Promise of Long-Term Solid Organ and Tissue Perfusion.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026
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  11. Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025
    Review
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  16. Isolated Perfused Hearts for Cardiovascular Research: An Old Dog with New Tricks.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2024
    Review
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  18. Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2024
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  19. European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT) Consensus Statement on Machine Perfusion in Cardiothoracic Transplant.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2024
    Review
  20. Time Course of High-Energy Phosphate Depletion During Cold Storage of Human Heart Grafts Using the Celsior Solution.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Martina BonaDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery InselspitalBern University Hospital Bern Switzerland.
Rahel K WyssDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery InselspitalBern University Hospital Bern Switzerland.
Maria ArnoldDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery InselspitalBern University Hospital Bern Switzerland.
Natalia Méndez-CarmonaDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery InselspitalBern University Hospital Bern Switzerland.
Maria N SanzDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery InselspitalBern University Hospital Bern Switzerland.
Dominik GünschDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine/Institute for Diagnostic, Interventional and Paediatric Radiology Bern University HospitalInselspitalUniversity of Bern Switzerland.
Lucio BarileLaboratory for Cardiovascular Theranostics Cardiocentro Ticino Foundation and Faculty of Biomedical Sciences Università Svizzera Italiana Lugano Switzerland.
Thierry P CarrelDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery InselspitalBern University Hospital Bern Switzerland.
Sarah L LongnusDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery InselspitalBern University Hospital Bern Switzerland.
University of Bern · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart transplantation remains the treatment of reference for patients experiencing end-stage heart failure; unfortunately, graft availability through conventional donation after brain death is insufficient to meet the demand. Use of extended-criteria donors or donation after circulatory death has emerged to increase organ availability; however, clinical protocols require optimization to limit or prevent damage in hearts possessing greater susceptibility to injury than conventional grafts. The emergence of cardiac ex situ machine perfusion not only facilitates the use of extended-criteria donor and donation after circulatory death hearts through the avoidance of potentially damaging ischemia during graft storage and transport, it also opens the door to multiple opportunities for more sensitive monitoring of graft quality. With this review, we aim to bring together the current knowledge of biomarkers that hold particular promise for cardiac graft evaluation to improve precision and reliability in the identification of hearts for transplantation, thereby facilitating the safe increase in graft availability. Information about the utility of potential biomarkers was categorized into 5 themes: (1) functional, (2) metabolic, (3) hormone/prohormone, (4) cellular damage/death, and (5) inflammatory markers. Several promising biomarkers are identified, and recommendations for potential improvements to current clinical protocols are provided.

Indexed as

Heart TransplantationTissue DonorsBiomarkersGraft RejectionHeart FailureHumansPerfusionTissue and Organ ProcurementBiomarkersbiomarkersdonation after circulatory deathex situ heart perfusionextended‐criteria heart donorsheart transplantation

Identifiers

PMID33522248
PMCPMC7955334
OpenAlexW3128571583

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