Resumen de Hearts kept alive outside the body
A new way of keeping donated hearts alive for a day or more could bring an end to people dying while on the transplant waiting list. The method was tested on the first patient in August, with a heart kept in a "deep sleep" state for 3 hours. It will be tested on five more people for this same time and, if all goes well, the storage time will be gradually raised to 24 hours. Stig Steen at Lund University in Sweden, who developed the technique, says it could potentially be extended to several days.
