Jordan Hoffman, MD, MPH
Researchers investigating controlled donation after circulatory death, a novel approach to heart transplantation in the United States, have found it feasible, with satisfactory short-term results. As experience with the approach grows, it has the potential to expand the donor pool and increase the rate of cardiac transplant, possibly by as much as 30%.
“This is a relatively new technique to reanimate the heart after death. Not everyone is used to