Typically, heart donations are usually acquired from patients who are brain dead. A few years ago, surgeons started to acquire hearts after circulatory death instead by reanimating them with a machine ...

Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain-dead, but new research shows a different approach can be just as successful and boost the number of available organs. It's called donation after ...

Until recently, if a heart stopped beating, it couldn’t be donated. Donor hearts typically come from patients determined to be brain dead, from which doctors can extract the beating organ and ...

A new method of donor-lung distribution is projected to decrease the number of candidate deaths who are on the waitlist for lung transplant, according to a study by Cleveland Clinic and the U.S.

A relatively new method for heart transplants may dramatically increase the number of donor hearts for those in need of the life-saving procedure. Duke’s heart center played a significant role in the ...

A new method of donor-lung distribution is projected to decrease the number of candidate deaths who are on the waitlist for lung transplant, according to a study by Cleveland Clinic and the U.S.

A new transplant method that "reanimates" donor hearts appears safe and effective, a new clinical trial has found -- in an advance that could substantially expand the supply of donor hearts available ...

A new method of donor-lung distribution is projected to decrease the number of candidate deaths who are on the waitlist for lung transplant, according to a new study. A new method of donor-lung ...