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Researchers at Duke and Vanderbilt have developed new, simpler methods to recover hearts from donation after circulatory death (DCD), potentially increasing the number of hearts available for transplant and saving more lives, especially among children and adults in need of urgent transplants.
Researchers at Duke and Vanderbilt are developing new, simpler methods to recover hearts from donation after circulatory death (DCD), potentially increasing the number of hearts available for transplant and saving more lives, especially among children and adults with heart failure.
A new method for heart transplants called DCD (donation after circulatory death) could increase the number of donor hearts available for those in need of the life-saving procedure. Duke Health physicians led a study that showed the DCD approach is virtually the same as hearts procured through the current standard of care. Duke is now one of about 20 transplant centers in the country that provide DCD Heart Transplants and it could lead to more than 4,000 of the transplants this year.