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- The use of donor lungs from drowning victims is rare due to concerns about lung damage and contamination from water, leading to limited research on the topic.
- Most existing literature focuses on drownings in natural bodies of water, with little information available on outcomes from victims in artificial settings like swimming pools.
- This text discusses three successful cases of lung transplants from pool drowning victims, suggesting that using these organs could help increase the availability of donor lungs and reduce waitlist deaths.
Article Abstract
The use of donor lungs from victims of drowning remains a rare occurrence, given concerns over lung parenchymal injury and microbial contamination secondary to aspiration. Given this infrequency, there is a relative paucity of literature surrounding the use of organs from drowned donors, with the few that exist on this subject focusing primarily on cases of drowning in naturally occurring bodies of water (i.e., drowning at sea). Little is known regarding the outcomes of utilizing donor lungs from victims of drowning in artificial bodies of water (i.e., swimming pools). Here, we describe three cases of bilateral lung transplantation from donors who drowned in swimming pools, with good short- and long-term outcomes. These cases lend further evidence to the feasibility of using such organs that have traditionally been viewed with much trepidation. With continually growing demand for donor organs, the use of drowned donor lungs may serve as a means to expand the donor pool and lessen the burden of waitlist mortality.
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