UW Medicine Regional Heart Center is first in the nation to use the "heart in a box" technology in a clinical trial, which enables a beating heart to be transported for use in a transplant...
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I was a dude just gettinga heart.You know, my card got drawn.I was the lucky choice.SPEAKER 1: The logging
truck driver from Aberdeenwas the lucky choice to receive
a donor heart in the first UStransplant in a
just-started trialat the Organ Care System,
known as The Heart in a Box.The technology allows surgeons
to pump blood through a heartand monitor the organ's function
as it travels from a donorto a recipient.TED DANIELS: I feel real good.SPEAKER 1: Ted, who was
diagnosed with congestive heartfailure a decade
ago, is the...
