While your heart pumps blood to the rest of your body, a network of arteries known as coronary arteries brings blood to your heart muscle. If these get too narrow, it can be hard for your heart to get ...

When doing open-heart surgery, the surgeon needs a still heart and lungs to work. The patient still needs oxygen circulated through the bloodstream to survive. Thus, cardiovascular perfusionists (also ...

In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused simply because transplant teams couldn't get the organ to a recipient in time.

Using the Organ Care System (OCS) Heart platform to perfuse, optimize, and assess donor hearts has excellent outcomes, including 87% of extended criteria donor (ECD) hearts being successfully ...

Using a DCD heart warm perfusion, doctors at Duke just brought a heart back to life for the first time in the United States for use in a heart transplant. On a given day, up to 114,000 people await a ...

In the majority of cases, graft failure after heart transplantation is attributable to abnormalities like severe coronary artery disease. As donors with extended criteria like advanced age and ...

HOUSTON - (November 20, 2019) Texas Heart Institute (THI) School of Perfusion Technology student, Leslie Gonzalez was awarded the prestigious Perfusion Without Borders scholarship and will travel with ...

Perfusion describes when fluids such as blood and lymph pass through tissue. A perfusionist is a professional who operates machinery when this process requires assistance, such as during heart surgery ...

Within the last 24 months, I have financial relationship(s) or affiliation(s) with a manufacturer, marketer, reseller, or distributor of a healthcare product or service involved in the management of ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conditionally approved TransMedics Group’s investigational device exemption (IDE) to commence the next-generation OCS ENHANCE Heart study. Part A of the ...