| Title | Transplant Surgeons Use Heart that Stopped Beating | |
| Date | Sunday October 26 2014, @08:18PM | |
| Author | azrael | |
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| from the operating-during-a-storm dept. | ||
BBC News has a story about a novel transplant.
Surgeons in Australia say they have performed the first heart transplant using a "dead heart". Donor hearts from adults usually come from people who are confirmed as brain dead but with a heart still beating. A team at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney revived and then transplanted hearts that had stopped beating for up to 20 minutes.
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