Current opinion in organ transplantation
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Despite improvements in respiratory care and lung transplant organ allocation algorithms, waiting lists continue to grow worldwide. Attempts at improving organ donation rates have generally had little impact on the increase in the number of transplants performed. Improved use of the available pool of cadaveric organ donors, therefore, represents one of few immediately available strategies to alleviate organ shortages. ⋯ Although the available evidence for and against the commonly used lung donor selection criteria leaves many questions unanswered, it can help decrease the large number of uncertainties that be falls the practice of lung donor selection and recipient matching.