Surgeons transplant heart that had stopped beating--- Ιατροί έκαναν μεταμόσχευση σταματημένης καρδιάς στην Αυστραλία.

The console where the heart is "reactivated" is being called the heart-in-a-box machine

Surgeons in Australia say they have performed the first heart transplant using a "dead heart".

Donor hearts from adults usually come from people who are confirmed as brain dead but with a heart still beating.

A team at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney revived and then transplanted hearts that had stopped beating for up to 20 minutes.

The first patient who received a heart said she felt a decade younger and was now a "different person".

Hearts are the only organ that is not used after the heart has stopped beating - known as donation after circulatory death.

Beating hearts are normally taken from brain-dead people, kept on ice for around four hours and then transplanted to patients.

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Σχόλιο του αδελφού μας ιατρού Κυπριανού Χριστοδουλίδη:

A team at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney revived and then transplanted hearts that had stopped beating for up to 20 minutes.

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... for up to 20 minutes. Συμβαίνουν αυτά, κυρίως όταν έχουμε νεαρά άτομα, αν και είναι σπάνια. Η πληροφόρηση ελλειπής. Λείπουν στατιστικά στοιχεία.