The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people ...

Organ donation after the heart stops beating, a practice called donation after circulatory death, has gone from rare to routine in the United States, a new study shows. This shift over the past 25 ...

Organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) now accounts for nearly half of all deceased organ donors in the U.S., marking a dramatic shift in transplant practice over the past 2 ...

Recent advancements in organ procurement techniques to improve the quality of donated organs have given rise to normothermic regional perfusion (NRP), a procedure that restores blood flow to organs in ...

Patent strengthens IP foundation supporting a minimally invasive platform designed to expand access to circulatory ...

Brain activity has been detected up to an hour after cardiac arrest, challenging long-held beliefs about when death truly ...

The aorta, a large blood vessel responsible for transporting oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body, plays a crucial role in our circulatory system. While it has long been known that ...

Your circulatory system works all day, every day, to pump oxygen throughout your body. There are cardiovascular conditions that can impact this system. Your circulatory system, also known as your ...

Transplants from circulatory-death donor hearts assessed with a perfusion machine did just as well as those procured after brain death and cold storage, a randomized trial showed. Recipients of a ...