Transplant surgeons are using a pioneering technology that keeps a donor heart pumping outside the body. Dubbed the ‘heart in a box’, the device keeps the organ ‘alive’ from the moment it is removed ...

It works like this: Traditional heart donors are brain dead but on life support, called a donation after brain death, or DBD. Those hearts are put in a box of ice and rushed to the recipient site, ...

New technology could save the lives of heart transplant recipients. Doctors estimate “heart in a box” could make up to 30% more hearts available for transplant. NBC News’ Akshay Syal spoke with ...

PHOENIX - Mayo Clinic in Arizona is bringing a life-changing medical advancement to its patients through a change in the heart donation and transplant process. Previously, hearts can only be taken ...

SAN RAMON (KPIX 5) – For those whose lives depend on getting a heart transplant, the wait for the gift of life can be agonizing. Unless a donor patient has been declared brain dead, the law requires ...

LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - A man from Lake Havasu City was saved by breakthrough technology used for the first time in Arizona, a ‘heart in a box.’ We first told you about the procedure in ...