World’s First Transplant With a Heart That Never Stopped Beating
In a wild first, surgeons in Taiwan kept a donor heart beating the whole time—from removal to transplant. No icy storage, no pause, just a heart pumping like it never left home. The secret? A custom system that fed it oxygen-rich blood nonstop. It's like delivering a still-running engine instead of towing a cold one. The result? Way less damage, and the patient’s heart enzyme levels stayed super low—rare in heart surgery.
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