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Dead’ heart brought back to life’ by doctors

‘Dead’ heart ‘brought back to life’ by doctors
Dead’ heart brought back to life’ by doctors

DOCS have brought a “dead” heart back to life and successfully transplanted the organ for the first time in the US.

Surgeons at Duke University harvested the heart from a dead donor whose blood had already stopped pumping through their body.

A pioneering technique was then used to run blood back into the disembodied heart, so it would beat once again.

Incredibly, the heart can be preserved and kept beating for up to eight hours after being removed from the donor.

The identities of the donor and recipient of the heart remain unclear.

World's first human-to-human heart transplant operation was performed in 1967 in Africa. 

Source The Sun

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