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DURHAM, N.C. 鈥?Doctors at Duke University Hospital performed a heart transplant using a procedure that could drastically expand the amount of organ donations available to patients in need. Jacob Schroder, M.D. and the hospitals heart transplant team performed the surgery on a military veteran on Sunday, using the procedure known as Donation after Circulation Death, or DCD.With the surgery, Duke says the team became the first in the nation to transplant an adult heart into a recipient using the DCD method. However, DCD transplants are done regularly in the U.S. for organs other than the heart.Traditionally, heart donations have depended on declaration of brain death. But with DCD transplants, the donors heart has actually stopped beating and the person is declared deceased. Schroder says the DCD heart procedure has the potential to expand the donor pool by up to 30%. Incr
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stanley mug heart transplants as part of a recently launched clinical trial of a device to circulate warm, oxygenated blood through organs. Its important to conduct this clinical trial to determine whether those outcomes are realized, said Schroder.As for the veteran who received the hea Ipeo DePere coffee shop gives homes to special needs cats
A Tennessee middle school teacher showed up drunk to school and was arrested, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff s Office.Authorities said 38-year-old Christopher David Garciawas charged with public intoxication on Wednesday.Rutherford County School officials said he was a math teacher at B
stanley polska lackman Middle School.The administration heard Garcia may be intoxicated and intervened immediately before classes began for the
stanley tazas day.In a statement, school officials said: We don t tolerate this type of behavior from our teachers, and he will not be permitted to teach at any
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