The study found that hearts taken from people after circulatory death can be just as safe and life-saving as those taken after brain death.
last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. It involved 180 patients scheduled to receive heart transplants, who were randomly assigned to receive either a traditionally donated heart or a DCD heart. The researchers then kept track of the health and long-term survival of patients who underwent a transplant.
The six-month survival rate in DCD patients—after adjusting for other known risk factors—was about 94%, compared to around 90% in the traditional transplant group. Even when successful, organ transplants can come with plenty of side effects. But there was also no difference in the amount of serious adverse events experienced by patients in either group 30 days later, further indicating the relative safety of the new method.
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