By Ralph Ellis
A recently developed way to perform heart transplants works as well as the traditional method and, if widely embraced, could greatly increase the number of hearts available for transplant, doctors at Duke University say.
The study team looked at 180 heart transplants conducted at numerous hospitals, half involving hearts from brain-dead donors – the traditional method – and half involving hearts from people who had circulatory deaths. Circulatory death occurs when all circulatory and respiratory functions stop.
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