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Medical Team Finds Way to Preserve Hearts Outside Bodies
New Orleans AP reports Dr. Francis Robicsek of Charlotte NC announced a method to keep hearts beating outside the body for 24 hours using a pressurized stabilizing system. The technique attaches a lung and preserves the heart with its own blood circulation, potentially aiding future transplants and possibly extending to kidneys and lungs. An South African surgeon Dr. Terry G O'Donovan attended and said he had not heard of the method.
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New Orleans
North Carolina
Francis Robicsek
Charlotte
N. C
Society of
Thoracic Surgeons
Terry G. O'Donovan
Capetown
South Africa
Robicsek
Charlotte Memorial Hospital
O'Donovan
Christian Barnard