US EditionResearchers try new ways of preserving more hearts for transplants
UNITED STATES, JUL 16 – Vanderbilt and Duke's new preservation techniques have enabled about 45 donor heart transplants with outcomes equal or superior to current methods, potentially easing the organ shortage.
- On Wednesday, surgeons at Duke and Vanderbilt reported they separately developed simpler methods to retrieve hearts for transplant.
- These efforts respond to the urgent demand for more transplantable hearts, as about 700 US children join waiting lists annually and 20% die waiting.
- Vanderbilt's new method, used in 25 heart transplants so far, flushes hearts with cold oxygenated liquid after circulatory death, avoiding ethical issues of reanimating donor circulation.
- Dr. Aaron Williams called the method simpler, cost-effective, with transplantation outcomes comparable to current techniques, while Duke's Dr. Turek noted devices used cannot aid small children's hearts, the group with highest need.
- If these innovations succeed, they could expand donor heart availability, help recover unused hearts, and reduce transplant waitlist deaths among adults and children.
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