“There’s no common definition for when someone is too sick to transplant,” said Natasha Dolgin, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the study’s lead author.
The standard for organ transplant is a plastic picnic cooler filled with ice. Boston-based TransMedics is one-upping this idea with a warm blood perfusion device - essentially keeping organs alive as they await transplant surgery.
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