684120login-checkReanimated hearts work as well for transplants and could make more organs available for patients in need, study finds |
By Brenda Goodman, CNN
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.
Traditionally, the only people considered to be suitable organ donors were those who have been declared brain-dead but whose hearts and other organs have continued to function.
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684120login-checkReanimated hearts work as well for transplants and could make more organs available for patients in need, study finds |