Special Issue

Organ Preservation and Distribution

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2026 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editor

Yasuhiro Shudo, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA

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Research Interests: End-stage cardiopulmonary failure; heart transplant; heart-lung transplant; lung transplant; mechanical circulatory support (MCS); extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)

Co-Editor

Chawannuch Ruaengsri, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA

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Research Interests: Cardiac Transplant; mechanical circulatory support; atrial fibrillation surgery; minimally invasive cardiac surgery

About This Topic

Organ transplantation remains the only effective therapy for patients with end-stage organ failure. The supply of organs of high efficacy and quality has been extremely important in organ transplantation. Organ preservation is essential for maintaining organ viability after procurement and restoring normal function after reperfusion. Over the past decade, there has been a significant advancement in organ preservation technologies. In this special issue, we will focus on the history and current practices of organ preservation, updates on the development of techniques and innovations that have taken place for extended organ preservation, and the opportunities in the field of research for a future horizon of new organ preservation pathways.

Keywords

Organ transplantation; organ preservation; organ donation

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). Research articles and review articles are highly invited. Authors are encouraged to send the tentative title and abstract of the planned paper to the Editorial Office (transplantation@lidsen.com) for record. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office.

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Publication

Open Access Review Optimizing Donor Management Strategies for DCD Lung Procurement by Chawannuch Ruaengsri  , Miguel Alvarez-Cortes  , Marc Leon  , Manuel Quiroz-Flores  , Masafumi Shibata  and Yasuhiro Shudo Received: 30 June 2025;  Published: 30 December 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2504261 Abstract Donation after circulatory death (DCD) offers a vital strategy to expand the donor lung pool; however, DCD lungs are uniquely susceptible to warm ischemic injury during procurement. This chapter reviews evidence-based and emerging donor management strategies aimed at mitigating ischemic damage and optimizing the suitability of DCD lungs for [...]