Summary

A donor heart recovery technique developed at Vanderbilt Health has been successfully adapted for children by pediatric heart transplant surgeons at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, potentially expanding access to lifesaving heart transplants for children. In a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, surgeons with the Golisano Pediatric Heart Institute at Monroe Carell and Vanderbilt Health's adult heart transplant team reported on their successful recovery and transplantation of five donor hearts in children using the novel technique known as REUP (rapid recovery with extended ultraoxygenated preservation).

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