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Matthew Bacchetta, MD

Matthew Bacchetta, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
H. William Scott, Jr Chair in Surgery and Associate Professor, Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery/Surgical Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
bioengineering organ transplants
2020Clinical PracticeTennessee

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Primary Title
H. William Scott, Jr Chair in Surgery and Associate Professor
Primary Department
Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery/Surgical Sciences
Primary Affiliation
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

About Matthew Bacchetta, MD

Posts by Matthew Bacchetta, MD

July 17, 2025
New method enables recovery of hearts from deceased organ donors after circulatory death
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have developed a groundbreaking new method for the recovery of hearts from deceased organ donors after circulatory death (DCD). The method (rapid recovery with extended ultra-oxygenated preservation [REUP]),...
November 19, 2024
Donation After Circulatory Death Kidney Transplant Outcomes Not Affected by Wait Time
Extending wait time criteria from 1 to 3 hours after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for kidney donation after circulatory death (DCD) does not compromise kidney transplant outcomes and may help ease the organ shortage, investigators report. The...
April 14, 2023
Process rehabilitates donor livers for transplantation
Not enough suitable donor livers are available, meaning that patients nationwide die every day while waiting on the transplant list. But a multidisciplinary team from Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently published research that shows promise...
July 29, 2021
Bacchetta named chair of Thoracic Surgery
Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA, associate professor of Thoracic Surgery, has assumed his new role as chair of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Thoracic Surgery, as of July 2021. Bacchetta, an internationally renowned National Institutes...
October 10, 2020
Vanderbilt performs world’s first heart, lung transplant of COVID-19 patient
Vanderbilt University Medical Center says it performed the world’s first dual heart-lung transplant of a COVID-19 patient in September. Vanderbilt says the patient, described as a young man, had cardiomyopathy – a disease of the heart tissue that can...
July 15, 2020
Nature Medicine
Xenogeneic cross-circulation for extracorporeal recovery of injured human lungs
Medical, surgical and technological advancements in organ transplantation continue to expand life-saving treatment options for patients with end-stage lung disease, but transplantation remains limited by the low availability of donor organs. As chronic...
July 15, 2020
JTCVS
Multiday maintenance of extracorporeal lungs using cross-circulation with conscious swine
Abstract Objectives Lung remains the least-utilized solid organ for transplantation. Efforts to recover donor lungs with reversible injuries using ex vivo perfusion systems are limited to <24 hours of support. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of...
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