Organ donation after the heart stops beating has risen sharply in the U.S. Over 25 years, it has grown from a rare practice ...

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

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. But last year about half of the deceased ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Outcomes were similar for transplants of donor hearts after circulatory death vs. transplants of donor hearts ...

A case series describes 24 patients who received donation after circulatory death cardiac allografts that were recovered using the REUP technique. REUP is an organ procurement technique that doesn't ...

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute became the first in Illinois to successfully transplant a heart donated after circulatory death. The new technology, nicknamed ...

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 ...

Researchers say they have been able to tap a new pool of organ donors to preserve and transplant their hearts: people whose hearts have stopped beating, resulting in so-called circulatory death.

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 ...