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While euthanasia has been legalized in a growing number of countries, organ donation after euthanasia is only performed in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Canada. Moreover, the clinical practice of heart donation after euthanasia has never been reported before. We describe the first case of a heart donated after euthanasia, reconditioned with thoraco‐abdominal normothermic regional perfusion,...
Emerging data support the safety of transplantation of extra‐pulmonary organs from donors with SARS‐CoV‐2‐detection. Our center offered kidney transplantation (KT) from deceased donors (DD) with SARS‐CoV‐2 with and without COVID‐19 as a cause of death (CoV + COD and CoV+) to consenting candidates. No pre‐emptive antiviral therapies were given. We retrospectively compared outcomes to contemporaneous...