Only 11 percent of heart-in-a-box organ recipients reported severe organ failure versus 28 percent of SCS patients. Credit: XVIVO Developed by XVIVO AB, HOPE (also referred to as a “heart-in-a ...

Dubbed "Heart in a Box," the new system can keep a heart healthy and suitable for transplant for nine hours or more – it actually keeps the organ beating in transit. Speaking of transplants ...

Dubbed the ‘heart in a box’, the device keeps the organ ‘alive’ from the moment it is removed until it is placed in a recipient. Traditionally, all donor organs are placed in a cool-box ...

Among its many painful impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened an already critical shortage of life-saving organs available for human transplant. As you read this, more than 2,100 Arizonans ...

Nicknamed “lungs in a box,” the ex-vivo lung perfusion procedure allows donated lungs to be examined for hours at a time on a machine – after being extracted from the body. The organs are ...

“Sometimes it’s clear lungs aren’t suitable but often we are looking at organs we would call ‘marginal’. “If you have the box you can do things to make them useful. Without the ...