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A relatively new method of heart transplantation, which allows for the use of hearts donated after circulatory death could expand the pool of available donor hearts by a projected 30%. Here's what's happening.
Compared with the traditional method of using hearts after brain death, this newer strategy could up the availability of organs.
Similar short-term clinical outcomes were achieved with hearts donated after circulatory death to those after brain death, and these could potentially increase the donor pool by 30%.