Innovative strategies to increase cardiac donor availability

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World Journal of Transplantation

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World J Transplant. Sep 18, 2025; 15(3): 102768
Published online Sep 18, 2025. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v15.i3.102768

Innovative strategies to increase cardiac donor availability

Benjamin Alexander, Herra Javed, Anshaal Furrukh, Krittika Joshi, Louis Steen, Taufiek Konrad Rajab

Benjamin Alexander, Herra Javed, Anshaal Furrukh, Louis Steen, Taufiek Konrad Rajab, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR 72202, United States

Krittika Joshi, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR 72202, United States

Author contributions: Alexander B contributed to writing–original draft, reviewing, and editing; Javed H, Furrukh A, Steen L, Joshi K contributed to writing–reviewing, and editing; Rajab TK contributed to supervision, writing–reviewing and editing.

Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors of this manuscript report no conflicts interest.

Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Corresponding author: Taufiek Konrad Rajab, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Arkansas Children's Hospital, 1 Children's Way, Little Rock, AR 72202, United States. tkrajab@uams.edu

Received: October 30, 2024
Revised: February 10, 2025
Accepted: March 6, 2025
Published online: September 18, 2025
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Core Tip: Heart transplantation is a procedure for extending the life of patients subject to heart failure but is limited in capacity by the availability of organ donations. Here we present a review on surgical, medical and policy innovations that can be used to increase the availability of donor organs for the general public.