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Medicine

Challenges in Cadaveric Organ Preservation for Transplantation

Quick fact

The heart and lungs are the most time-sensitive organs, with safe preservation windows of only 4 to 6 hours, whereas kidneys can be preserved for up to 30 to 40 hours using conventional cold storage.

Why this is interesting

You’ve probably heard that a heart can only survive a few hours outside the body, but why is that? What makes a liver last longer than a heart, and can we stretch these limits?