Early experimental results are encouraging and suggest that machine perfusion may offer superior cardiac performance after transplantation. In the future, this technology may lead to an expansion of the donor pool through greater use of expanded-criteria donors, resuscitation of ischemically injured hearts, or procurement of hearts that are donated after cardiac death.
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