Medical workers of England for the first time turned out to replant a dead heart. Earlier this organ transplantation was possible only if it continued to fight in the body of the donor. The success of the operation provided a new method of organ transplantation.

The team medical staff of the hospital Papworth were able for the first time to carry out a successful heart transplant after a complete stop. A revolutionary breakthrough in cardiology implemented firm TransMedics, who developed a unique technology OCS, notifies bi-Bi-si.

According to the surgeon Stephen Large, the new methodology will dramatically reduce the number of patients in the queue waiting for donor hearts. "The introduction of this form of transplantation of donor organs is able to increase the number of cardiorespiratory in England by 25 per cent," he added.

Previously, similar operations were impossible in consequence of the limitations of existing methods of cold storage, which was not possible to maintain the working condition of the authority. Heart transplant patient of the hospital Papworth, with the new portable storage method body, managed to revive to full functioning.

Clinical Director of transplantation British hospitals reported that patients who underwent surgery by the method of OCS, 're progressing, which confirms the greater efficiency of the new technology.

The President of the company TransMedics Walid Hassanein reported that currently active clinical research in the field of transplantation of the heart, kidneys and lungs in the US, however, that in the foreseeable future to enter the American market.

Adopted earlier way of storing hearts in ice would cause a significant defect in the process of transportation. The more time your body carried out in frozen form, the faster it has lost its own performance. According to experts, 60-65% of donor material, which is stored by the method of freezing is unfit for transplantation.
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