Purpose: To demonstrate the performance and safety of the Organ Care System (OCS) for donor
heart preservation and transportation. OCS is a portable organ perfusion and monitoring
system intended to preserve a donated heart in near-physiologic functioning state
during transport for the eventual transplantation into a recipient. OCS maintains
organ viability by continuously perfusing the donated heart with warm, oxygenated
donor’s blood, supplemented with a maintenance solution.
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© 2007 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
