Cardiovascular Surgeons Perform the Health System’s First Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Transplant
UC San Francisco surgeons have performed the health system’s 20,000th solid organ transplant, making it just the third in the nation to reach that milestone. The surgery also marked UCSF Health’s first donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplant, a procedure performed by only about twenty health systems in the U.S. Read more from UCSF Health.