The trend contributes significantly to kidney and liver transplants and is increasingly used for lungs, hearts and pancreas. The findings come from an analysis by NYU Langone Health researchers. Advances such as normothermic regional perfusion are helping make organs viable from DCD donors.

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The data source was the Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network, covering all 55 U.S. organ procurement organisations. DCD donors tend to be older with more health conditions than earlier donor cohorts. Researchers emphasised expanded education for patients, families and clinicians as donation after circulatory death becomes more common.