{"id":8114,"date":"2025-07-26T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:37:21","slug":"worlds-first-on-table-heart-reanimation-saves-infants-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/worlds-first-on-table-heart-reanimation-saves-infants-life\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First \u201cOn-Table Heart Reanimation\u201d Saves Infant\u2019s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
World\u2019s First \u201cOn-Table Heart Reanimation\u201d Saves Infant\u2019s Life<\/div>\n
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The Duke Study:<\/div>\n
Published: July 16, 2025<\/div>\n
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)<\/div>\n
1. What\u2019s the Traditional Way to Transplant a Heart?<\/div>\n
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Normally, donor hearts come from brain-dead patients, and doctors quickly transplant them while the heart is still beating.<\/div>\n
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In some cases, hearts are donated after the heart has stopped beating \u2014 this is called Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD). In adults, doctors may restart the heart inside the donor\u2019s body using a method called NRP (normothermic regional perfusion).<\/div>\n
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But for infants and children, this method often raises ethical concerns and isn\u2019t allowed in many places.<\/div>\n
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2. What\u2019s the New Method by Duke?<\/div>\n
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Surgeons at Duke Health created a new, life-saving method for babies:<\/div>\n
\u2022 They removed a heart from a baby donor after it stopped beating.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 Instead of restarting it inside the donor, they placed it on a surgical table.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 Using a life-support machine called ECMO, they restarted the heart outside the body \u2014 this is called on-table heart reanimation.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 They checked if the heart was working well.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 Then they transplanted it into a 3-month-old infant.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Result: After 3 months, the baby was doing well with no signs of rejection.<\/div>\n
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3. Why It Matters<\/div>\n
\u2022 This method offers a new option for babies who need a heart transplant, especially where NRP is not allowed.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 It could increase the number of infants who can receive a donated heart.<\/span><\/div>\n
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4. A Second Innovation from Vanderbilt<\/div>\n
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At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, doctors developed another method to preserve donor hearts:<\/div>\n
\u2022 They used cold oxygenated fluid to keep the heart healthy for up to 8 hours after removal.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 This may make heart transplants more accessible around the world \u2014 especially for DCD donors.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0Final Takeaway<\/div>\n
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These two breakthroughs \u2014 from Duke and Vanderbilt \u2014 could change the future of heart transplantation, giving hope to more babies and patients in need.<\/div>\n
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DOI: 10.1056\/NEJMoa2500456<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World\u2019s First \u201cOn-Table Heart Reanimation\u201d Saves Infant\u2019s Life The Duke Study: Published: July 16, 2025 The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) 1. What\u2019s the Traditional Way to Transplant a Heart? Normally, donor hearts come from brain-dead patients, and doctors quickly transplant them while the heart is still beating. In some cases, hearts are donated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8116,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions\/8116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}