By Luke Halpern
Notably, donor hearts from those who underwent circulatory death were able to be preserved and analyzed in situ.
Survival at 6 months after transplantation with a donor heart that was reanimated and assessed after circulatory-death was found to be noninferior to patient survival among recipients of the standard care transplantation using a donor heart that had been preserved in cold storage after brain-death, according to the results of a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The more in Pharmacy Times.