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 The Heart That Wouldn´t Die | | By: BizarreNews | Published: 10/23/2001 | | |  |
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Surgeons at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center gave doctors a glimpse of the future this weekend when they used the experimental Portable Organ Preservation System (POPS) to keep an 80-year-old man´s heart beating hours after he had died. This rather gruesome experiment has important practical value. Ordinarily, hearts that are to be transplanted are taken from the donor´s body and chilled until they can be used. But such a heart can only last about six hours. Using the POPS, warm blood is kept flowing through the organ, giving surgeons more time to get potential recipients to the hospital. [I know another organ I´d like to keep blood flowing through for a few extra hours.]
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Yeah, one day I died
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willi
(10.23.2001 6:40:58 PM EST)
and they wanted to put my organ on ice. They made me sleep with my wife. (rimshot!)
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