1 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
2 Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
3 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
4 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.
5 Genomic Core, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
6 Department of Anatomic Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
7 Computational Biology Core, Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
8 Department of Medicine and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.
Received 4 January 2020. Revision received 7 May 2020.
Accepted 11 May 2020.
K.R.M. is a consultant to Lung Bioengineering and Fresenius.
H.E. was involved in the study design, data analysis, and manuscript preparation. T.O. was involved in conducting ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) experiments and manuscript revision. K.S.A. was involved in conducting EVLP experiments, data analysis, and manuscript revision. H.N. was involved in conducting EVLP experiments and manuscript revision. S.M. participated in molecular studies and data analysis. C.F. participated in histopathology data analysis. E.R.C. participated in bioinformatics data analysis and manuscript revision. M.A.A. participated in study design, molecular studies, data analysis, and manuscript revision. K.R.M. has contributed to study design, EVLP experiments, and manuscript revision.
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Correspondence: Haytham Elgharably, MD, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave/Desk J4-1, Cleveland, OH 44195. ([email protected]).
