SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A new technology known by doctors as “heart in a box” is being used at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego and it is helping save the lives of those who need a heart ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- For the first time in Illinois, surgeons at Northwestern Medicine's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute have successfully transplanted a heart after it stopped beating. "As soon as the ...
Transplant surgeons are using a pioneering technology that keeps a donor heart pumping outside the body. Dubbed the ‘heart in a box’, the device keeps the organ ‘alive’ from the moment it is removed ...
It works like this: Traditional heart donors are brain dead but on life support, called a donation after brain death, or DBD. Those hearts are put in a box of ice and rushed to the recipient site, ...
New technology could save the lives of heart transplant recipients. Doctors estimate “heart in a box” could make up to 30% more hearts available for transplant. NBC News’ Akshay Syal spoke with ...
SAN RAMON (KPIX 5) – For those whose lives depend on getting a heart transplant, the wait for the gift of life can be agonizing. Unless a donor patient has been declared brain dead, the law requires ...
LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - A man from Lake Havasu City was saved by breakthrough technology used for the first time in Arizona, a ‘heart in a box.’ We first told you about the procedure in ...
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