Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion CHEST Shinya Tane, MD, PhD, Kentaro Noda, PhD, Norihisa Shigemura, MD, PhD CHEST Volume 151, Issue 6, Pages 1220-1228 (June 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.02.018 Copyright © 2017 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP). A, An EVLP circuit and the pros and cons of EVLP. The EVLP system is composed of a pump, ventilator, heating/cooling unit, leukocyte filter, deoxygenator, perfusate reservoir, and organ dome. B, The cannulated pulmonary artery, left atrium, and intubated trachea in the organ dome. C, Bronchoscopy assessment during EVLP. LA = left atrium; N2 = nitrogen; O2 = oxygen; PA = pulmonary artery; PV = pulmonary vein; Tr = trachea. CHEST 2017 151, 1220-1228DOI: (10.1016/j.chest.2017.02.018) Copyright © 2017 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 The role of ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) according to graft quality. CLAD = chronic lung allograft dysfunction; DBD = donation after brain death; DCD = donation after circulatory death; PGD = primary graft dysfunction. CHEST 2017 151, 1220-1228DOI: (10.1016/j.chest.2017.02.018) Copyright © 2017 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions