Organ donation after the heart stops beating, a practice called donation after circulatory death, has gone from rare to ...

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Your circulatory system works all day, every day, to pump oxygen throughout your body. There are cardiovascular conditions that can impact this system. Your circulatory system, also known as your ...

Transplants from circulatory-death donor hearts assessed with a perfusion machine did just as well as those procured after brain death and cold storage, a randomized trial showed. Recipients of a ...

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Shortage of organs limits the number of heart transplantations performed; waiting-list mortality is 10–12% per year in Europe and the USA Adoption of donation after circulatory determination of death ...