A case series describes 24 patients who received donation after circulatory death cardiac allografts that were recovered using the REUP technique. REUP is an organ procurement technique that doesn't ...

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. But last year about half of the deceased ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have developed a groundbreaking new method for the recovery of hearts from deceased organ donors after circulatory death (DCD). The method (rapid ...

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people ...

Organ donation after the heart stops beating has risen sharply in the U.S. Over 25 years, it has grown from a rare practice ...

A new technique of on-table donor heart reanimation has potential to facilitate organ procurement when normothermic regional perfusion is not permitted. Successful case reports were reported for three ...

Geography once drove disparity, but access now hinges on how effectively centers can employ modern donor-utilization tools.

Contemporary donation after circulatory death donors are more medically complex than those from prior eras.

Payton Herres is only alive today thanks to the generosity of an organ donor and his family, who gave her his heart 12 years ago. The 25-year-old, from Dayton, Ohio, was born with a rare congenital ...