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Mass General Surgeons Pioneer Transplant Surgery with DCD Donor Hearts
The first-ever heart transplant using a donation after circulatory death (DCD) donor heart in New England was recently performed at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Innovation Increases Availability of Hearts and Lungs for Transplant
Warm perfusion and careful selection of marginal organs allow Mass General transplant teams to save more lives.
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Mass General Performs Its First Bloodless Heart Transplant
Massachusetts General Hospital's Heart Transplant Program completed its first bloodless heart transplant on a Jehovah's Witness patient using blood-conserving methods.
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Multicenter Trial Supports Transplantation of Hearts Donated After Circulatory Death
David A. D'Alessandro, MD, and colleagues found that six-month survival was similar in patients who received donor hearts that were reanimated and assessed with extracorporeal nonischemic perfusion after circulatory death and those whose donor hearts were preserved with cold storage after brain death.
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Driving Pig Organ Xenotransplantation Towards Clinical Trials
Massachusetts General Hospital research is driving improved results in preclinical xenotransplantation models, paving the way for future human clinical trials.
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Ex Vivo Perfusion and Transplantation of Hearts Donated After Circulatory Death Is Safe and Effective
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers found transplantation of hearts donated after circulatory death and preserved with a proprietary ex vivo warm perfusion system was safe and effective compared with control subjects who received hearts donated after brain death. The one-year survival rate was 97%.
Heart Transplant Contributors
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David A. D'Alessandro, MD
Surgical Director, Heart Transplantation and Ventricular Assist Devices, Member of Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Mass General Performs Its First Bloodless Heart Transplant
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Gregory D. Lewis, MD
Jeffrey and Mary Ellen Jay Chair and Section Head of Heart Failure, Medical Director of Heart Transplantation
Recent Article
Higher Peak Systolic BP on Exercise Testing May Not Indicate Adverse Vascular Function
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James F. Markmann, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Surgical Director, Liver, Pancreas and Islet Transplant Programs, Clinical Director, MGH Transplant Center, Claude E. Welch Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Mass General Surgeons Pioneer Transplant Surgery with DCD Donor Hearts
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