GE HealthCare today announced the U.S. launch of Flyrcadotm (flurpiridaz F 18) injection at the 2025 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Scientific Session & Expo, taking place March 29-31 in ...
The number of kidney transplants in the Netherlands reached a record high last year, with 1,129 procedures performed. At the same time, chronic kidney disease is on the rise, fueled by unhealthy ...
A Spanish hospital has achieved a rare feat — performing a sixth kidney transplant on a single patient. How did they do it, and what does this mean for the future?
OrganOx, maker of a device to preserve liver donations, has teamed up with ProCure On-Demand, an organ recovery services ...
Advances in preservation methods like machine perfusion and cryopreservation offer hope against the shortage of donor organs.
The OrganOx metra® is a normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) platform approved in the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Australia. It has been utilized in over 5,000 liver transplants to date to keep donor ...
A review article published in Engineering delves into the crucial field of organ preservation, exploring its history, current techniques, and future prospects.
Circulatory death livers preserved for donation with normothermic machine perfusion had the lowest early allograft dysfunction rate. This method led to the shortest hospital and ICU lengths of stay.
Outside of the U.S., where OrganOx has a larger footprint, livers account for about 1% of TransMedics Group's sales. If OrganOx uses the capital it just raised to compete in the U.S. market as ...
The soldiers use truck-mounted machine guns to shoot down Russian drones packed with explosives. The Ukrainians said they are fueled by anger at Russia and a desire to protect their country.