Non Ischemic Heart Preservation

Standard heart preservation, before transplantation, consists of cold ischemic storage of the heart. Clinical studies have shown that the morbidity and mortality risk increases with an extension of the allograft ischemic time. Pre-clinical studies have demonstrated that a new preservation technology of donor hearts, using an ex-vivo non-ischemic heart perfusion system (NIHP), can be safely applied 24 hours in pigs. However, until now this state-of-the-art technique has never been used on humans.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - March 31, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: J. Nilsson, V. Jernryd, G. Qin, S. Nozohoor, D.C. Goncalves, S. Ragnarsson, A. Paskevicius, M. Johansson, J. Warheim, P. H öglund, T. Sjöberg, S. Steen Source Type: research