Typically, heart donations are usually acquired from patients who are brain dead. A few years ago, surgeons started to acquire hearts after circulatory death instead by reanimating them with a machine ...

Until recently, if a heart stopped beating, it couldn’t be donated. Donor hearts typically come from patients determined to be brain dead, from which doctors can extract the beating organ and ...

A recent study found that hearts donated after circulatory death were just as effective for transplantation as hearts donated after brain death. The study, published June 8 in The New England Journal ...

Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain-dead, but new research shows a different approach can be just as successful and boost the number of available organs. It's called donation after ...

Using transplanted hearts preserved by thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion (taNRP) after circulatory death results in better clinical outcomes than using those retrieved via direct ...

A relatively new method for heart transplants may dramatically increase the number of donor hearts for those in need of the life-saving procedure. Duke’s heart center played a significant role in the ...

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 ...

A new transplant method that "reanimates" donor hearts appears safe and effective, a new clinical trial has found -- in an advance that could substantially expand the supply of donor hearts available ...