Beating heart transplant technology explained
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“This heart continues beating outside the body while waiting to be transplanted. A perfusion system keeps it warm and receiving oxygenated blood, allowing the organ to be preserved in suitable conditions until the transplant.”
The claim describes a real medical technology in which a donor heart is kept beating outside the body by a perfusion system that supplies warm, oxygenated blood until transplant. Multiple medical sources confirm this is an established practice, known as warm perfusion or "heart in a box," used at hospitals in the UK and the US. The technology, such as the TransMedics Organ...