Every minute counts when a donor organ is being transported for a transplant surgery. Historically, donor organs—usually ...

A national study found that more lungs were offered for transplantation from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors than expected. Simultaneous heart donation with use of normothermic regional ...

Percutaneous thoracostomy tubes are widely used in neonates, infants and children. The technique has a low complication rate. Lung perforation by a pigtail catheter is described in a single case ...

A study has proved that it is possible to convert blood type safely in donor organs intended for transplantation. This finding is an important step towards creating universal type O organs, which ...

insights from industryThorsten Walles & Heike WallesCo-Founders MD2B At MEDICA 2022, NewsMedical spoke with Heike and Thorsten Walles, co-founders of MD2B LifeScience, which provides realistic thorax ...

Eyes – windows on the soul? Ángelo González, CC BY-SA Tissue and organ availability for use in transplant operations is influenced by many factors including getting people to register, and the ...

Thoracic outlet syndrome refers to a group of conditions that develop when the blood vessels or nerves in the thoracic outlet become compressed. The thoracic outlet is the narrow space between your ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) ProCure On-Demand surgeons recover organs that would have been discarded without expert-level, technology agnostic, locally-based surgeons These 500 transplants chip away at ...