Photo Credit: TransMedics
Four locations in the U.S.
are running trials on what is called, “Heart in a Box," a machine that
maintains the organ in a warm, beating and functioning physiologic state
outside of the body.
Dr. Ardhali, surgical
director of UCLA Heart and Lung Transport Program, says “Human hearts were
never meant to be put on ice in a cooler."
This will allow for donor
hearts to be transported across country and increase the pool of donor hearts
available to patients.
Read more about this trial at
UCLA Health.
Find out more about organ donations.
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