Your circulatory system works all day, every day, to pump oxygen throughout your body. There are cardiovascular conditions that can impact this system. Your circulatory system, also known as your ...

Organ donation after the heart stops beating, a practice called donation after circulatory death, has gone from rare to routine in the United States, a new study shows. This shift over the past 25 ...

Calf muscle, located at the back of the lower leg, is also referred to as the body's "second heart". The calf muscle performs ...

Transplants from circulatory-death donor hearts assessed with a perfusion machine did just as well as those procured after brain death and cold storage, a randomized trial showed. Recipients of a ...

Researchers are closer to understanding the earliest beginnings of the circulatory system during embryonic development—a discovery that could lead to ways to repair damage in the human body after ...

Heart transplantation using organs obtained from donors with circulatory death (DCD) is associated with transient right-heart dysfunction but offers short-term clinical outcomes otherwise comparable ...

As the central part of the circulatory system, the heart is responsible for pumping blood, supplying oxygen and nutrients, and removing metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide from all the tissues in ...

A case series describes 24 patients who received donation after circulatory death cardiac allografts that were recovered using the REUP technique. REUP is an organ procurement technique that doesn't ...

More donated hearts could be suitable for transplantation if they are kept functioning within the body for a short time following the death of the donor, new research has concluded. More donated ...