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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transplant Rev (Orlando). 2011 Oct 13;26(2):125–139. doi: 10.1016/j.trre.2011.01.004

Table 2.

Organ transplantation with CO intoxicated donors

Organ Tx
(#)
#
donors
Survival
>2M
Cause of failure Comments Year Authors Ref
Heart (1) 1 1/1 NA COHb: high levels 2008 Martìn-Suàrez S (87)
Heart (1) 1 1/1 NA CO exposure 72h 2008 Sezgin A (88)
Kidney (2) 1 2/2 NA COHb: 48.7%, warm ischemia 100min 2007 Bojakowski K (89)
Heart,(1)
Kidney (2)
Pancreas (1)
Liver (1)
1 5/5 NA COHb: 36%
Early heart graft dysfunction
2001 Rodrigus IE (90)
Heart (6)
Lung (1)
6 6/7 Heart graft failure Lung recipient died of lung infection (8M) 2001 Luckraz H (91)
Heart (2) 2 2/2 NA 2001 Bentley MJ (169)
Heart (5) 5 4/5 Technical (24h) COHb: 16.4–20%
2 additional death due to intestinal ischemia (3M)
and pancreatic cancer (4M)
1997 Koerner MM (83)
Liver (2) 2 2/2 NA COHb: 25–32% 1996 Verran D (170)
Heart (1) 1 1/1 NA Graft loss (14M) 1995 Roberts JR (171)
Heart (1)
Kidney (2)
Liver (1)
Pancreas (1)
1 4/5 Heart graft failure 1995 Hantson P (84)
Heart (1) 1 1/1 NA COHb: 29% 1993 Iberer F (172)
Heart (1)
Lung (1)
1 1/2 Heart graft failure CO exposure 4h
Heart was diffusely hypokinetic in the donor
1992 Shennib H (85)
Kidney (2) 1 2/2 NA One recipient with delayed graft function 1992 Hebert MJ (173)
Heart (2) 2 2/2 NA COHb: 14.7–43% 1992 Smith JA (174)
Heart (1) 1 0/1 Heart graft failure
(4d)
COHb: 48% 1989 Karwande SV (86)