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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...