Donor heart recipients and their doctors may soon have as much as double the standard amount of time to complete life-saving surgeries thanks to a new device dubbed HOPE. An extended time period not ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A new technology known by doctors as “heart in a box” is being used at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego and it is helping save the lives of those who need a heart ...

The risk of early heart failure after heart transplantation is lower if the donor heart is stored in a so-called heart-in-a-box instead of in the usual cooler with ice. This is according to a study ...

SAN RAMON (KPIX 5) – For those whose lives depend on getting a heart transplant, the wait for the gift of life can be agonizing. Unless a donor patient has been declared brain dead, the law requires ...

Dr. Jason Smith paused at the tower of plastic Igloo ice chests stacked in a corner at the UW Medicine Regional Heart Center in Seattle. “This is how we do it now,” said the 43-year-old cardiothoracic ...

The device has been shown to increase the number of donated hearts accepted by surgeons for safe implantation. Like many other organs for transplant, a heart must be harvested from a brain-dead donor ...

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The risk of early heart failure after heart transplantation is lower if the donor heart is stored in a so-called heart-in-a-box instead of in the usual cooler with ice. The risk of early heart failure ...