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Donor hearts are traveling longer distances with machine perfusion

27 April 2025, Boston—In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused simply because transplant teams couldn’t get the organ to ...
Business Wire

LivaNova Receives U.S. FDA 510(k) Clearance for Essenz Heart-Lung Machine for Cardiopulmonary Bypass Procedures

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology and innovation company, today announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Ex-situ machine perfusion devices for extracorporeal preservation of lungs for transplant

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Healio

Heart-lung machine nets FDA 510(k) clearance, launched in US

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. LivaNova announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for ...
clickondetroit.com

Machine perfusion is transforming the organ transplantation process

Read full article: Navigating HPV vaccine hesitancy: A doctor debunks myths, encourages cancer prevention Dr. Kyle Miletic, surgeon, talks about the procedure with heart transplant recipient Ken ...
Healio

Q&A: Capabilities, limitations of normothermic regional perfusion for lung transplants

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of normothermic regional perfusion could injure donor lungs meant for transplantation. More research is ...

Bridge to Life(TM) Secures FDA De Novo Clearance for VitaSmart(TM) Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion (HOPE) System, the First Ever U.S. Approval for Cold Machine Perfusion in ...

The FDA clearance enables the commercial use of VitaSmart (TM) for hypothermic oxygenated perfusion of donor livers following static cold storage and prior to transplantation, providing a clear, ...
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Donor lungs safely preserved up to 20 hours out-of-body prior to transplantation

27 April 2025, Boston—A study on donor lungs preserved outside the body before transplantation demonstrated that the hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion (HOPE) technique is a safe and effective ...
Business Wire

LivaNova Unveils Essenz In-Line Blood Monitor with U.S. FDA 510(k) Clearance and CE Mark

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology company, today announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance and CE Mark for ...
Augusta Free Press

Quality heart, lung care earns UVA international award

University of Virginia Medical Center has earned the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization’s Platinum Level Center of Excellence Award, the international group’s highest honor. Fewer than 30 ...
WHYY

A Philadelphia surgeon’s invention and historic open-heart operation is celebrated 70 years later

Dr. John Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine and used it to perform the world’s first successful open-heart surgery on May 6, 1953. Dr. John Gibbon was a researcher and surgeon at Jefferson Medical ...