The "rapid recovery with extended ultraoxygenated preservation" (REUP) technique, which does not require pre-implant donor ...

Researchers at the Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) marked the 10-year anniversary of modern heart donation after ...

A new heart transplant method — donation after cardiac death, or DCD — is being tested out in the U.S. for the first time, STAT reports. The new procedure uses a TransMedics system to keep hearts ...

DURHAM – For decades, doctors have used hearts donated after brain death as the standard of care. A relatively new method of heart transplantation, which allows for the use of hearts donated after ...

Researchers at the Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) marked the 10-year anniversary of modern heart donation after ...

Heart transplantation using organs obtained from donors with circulatory death (DCD) is associated with transient right-heart dysfunction but offers short-term clinical outcomes otherwise comparable ...

Transplantation of hearts donated after circulatory death (DCD) is associated with similar short-term clinical outcomes as hearts donated after brain death (DBD), except for transient posttransplant ...

TransMedics Group, Inc. TMDX received premarket approval (PMA) from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its OCS™ Heart System in favour of use with organs from donors after circulatory death ...

A national study found that more lungs were offered for transplantation from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors than expected. Simultaneous heart donation with use of normothermic regional ...

Heart transplantation using the new strategy of donation after circulatory death (DCD) resulted in similar 6-month survival among recipients as the traditional method of using hearts donated after ...