Monday 25 August 2014

Heart-lung Support Technology can Increase Number of Organs for Transplant

University of Michigan's Transplant Center scientists have used heart-lung support technology and were able to increase the number of kidneys, livers and pancreases available for transplant by about 20 percent. The results were published in the journal Transplantation and detail the impact of more than 10 years of using Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, or ECMO, to improve the quality and viability of organs donated after circulatory determination of death. ...

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