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An extracorporeal perfusion system for extended criteria donor hearts had excellent post-transplant outcomes and could be an alternative to traditional cold storage. ....
The HeartMate 3 is considered the safest mechanical heart pump of its kind, but a federal database has more than 4500 reports in which the medical device may have caused a patient's death. ....
Mortality and other outcomes after heart transplantation are comparable for patients receiving organs donated after circulatory death or after brain death. ....
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%. ....
The diagnostic algorithm has been revamped and clinicians should be thinking of arterial hypertension at an earlier (lower) arterial pulmonary pressure, the authors say. ....