Table 1.

Donor hearts rescued by stress echocardiography

Donor	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6
Age (years)	53	32	50	20	45	36
Sex	Female	Female	Female	Male	Male	Male
Medical history
Brain death cause	Intra-axial hemorrhage	Head injury	Subarachnoid hemorrhage	Cardiac arrest (37 min)	Head injury	Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Smoking	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Intensive Care Unit data
Troponin T (μg/L)	0.1	0.01	0.01	15*	152*	1073*
Central Venous Pressure (mmHg)	16*	-	7	-	13*	15*
Length of stay before death (days)	5	1	1	-	2	3
Noradrenaline (μg/kg/min)	0.6* Dopamine 10	0.28*	0.02	0.1	-	0.14* + dobutamine 2.8
RESTING Echo	Apical Hypokinesia*	Anterior-septal Hypokinesia*	Apical Akinesia*	Mild LVEF reduction*	Septal Hypokinesia*	Lateral inferior Hypokinesia*
LVEF, rest (%)	51*	46*	55	49*	60	47*
LV mass index (g/m2)	145*	89	112*	89	133*	102
WMSI, rest	1.29*	1.59*	1.65*	1	1.18*	1.26*
Stress echo
Dipyridamole infusion (min)	6	6	4*	6	6	6
LVEF, peak (%)	60	56	59	60	75	55
WMSI, peak	1.12*	1.41*	1.71*	1	1	1.11*
Δ WMSI	- 0.17	- 0.18	+ 0.06*	0	- 0.18	- 0.15
ΔESP/ESVi (mmHg/mL/m2)	Negative* (- 0.21)	Flat* (0.08)	Negative* (-1.7)	Positive (+0.94)	Positive (+1.2)	Flat (0)
Autopsy findings	Mild DCM*	-	CAD, 90% LAD coronary stenosis*	-	-	-
Histology	Replacing interstitial fibrosis	-	Coagulative necrosis, colliquative myocytolysis	-	-	-
Heart TX	-	-	-	YES	YES	YES
Cold ischemia time (min)				180	172	150
Recipient
Age/sex				56/M	48/M	55/M
Disease				Ischemic DC	Congenital HD	HCM
UNOS Status				2	2	2
Post-TX angiography				Normal	Normal	Normal
Intravascular Ultrasound-intimal thickness				-	LAD focal	0.6 mm LAD
Month 1 LVEF (%)				50	62	58
Post TX endomyocardial biopsies				regular myocardium	isolated foci of ischemic per transplant injury	regular myocardium
Follow-up months				26 alive	9 alive	12 alive

*Not Normal.