Results from the heart preservation study presented on ISHLT
At ISHLT, the good results from the first six heart transplant patients from the study at Lund University Hospital were presented. The heart preservation technology used in the study is developed by Professor Stig Steen. Previous published preclinical experiments have demonstrated that the method has the potential to extend the time a heart can be preserved outside the body (Ex Vivo).ISHLT (The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation) was held at the beginning of April, and at this conference, Professor Johan Nilsson presented the good results from the first six heart