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TransMedics announces that its OCS Heart technology was used successfully to preserve and assess the world s first series of three successful adult heart transplant procedures from hearts donated from donors after circulatory death (DCD) by the St. Vincent s Hospital Heart Transplant team.ince the advent of organ transplantation, the cornerstone of organ preservation has been cold ischemic storage (placing organs on ice). Although this method is intended to reduce the extent of organ damage during transport, significant deterioration of the donated organ still occurs.
Once radiopharmaceuticals enter the body and travel to an organ, they begin to interact with the processes of that organ. The radioactivity is picked up by cameras or computers and used to map the process. For example, an ultrasound can show an image of an organ and reveal if a tumor or other abnormality is present. Nuclear medicine can show how the process of glucose metabolism is functioning in the organ.