Be still, my beating heart: reading pulselessness from Shakespeare to the artificial heart

Be Still My Beating Heart Update on the Beta Blocker Controversy

Be Still My Heart: Determinants of Support for Capital Punishment Attitudes

...............................................................................................................................v Introduction..........................................................................................................................1 A History of Supreme Court Jurisprudence, Public Opinion, and the Death Penalty .........2 Public Opinion on the Death Penalty.........

Non-heart beating donors.

BACKGROUND Several groups have demonstrated that non-heart beating donation is a viable source of organs for transplantation. However, the theoretically worse graft function and survival of the kidneys obtained from non-heart beating donors (NHBDs) is still a matter of debate that has led to consider them as marginal donors for kidney transplantation. METHODS In this report, we compare the ou...

Non-Heart-Beating Donor Heart Transplantation: Breaking the Taboo

Roughly 60% of hearts offered for transplantation are rejected because of organ dysfunction. Moreover, hearts from circulatory-dead patients have long been thought to be non-amenable for transplantation, unlike other organs. However, tentative surgical attempts inspired by the knowledge obtained from preclinical research to recover those hearts have been performed, finally culminating in clinic...

Non-heart-beating organ donation

Transplantation programmes throughout the world are struggling to maintain current levels of organ donation. Transplant waiting lists continue to rise and the resulting deficit is growing year on year. Cadaveric heart-beating donation (HBD), where death is confirmed after brain stem testing, still provides the majority of organs. Over the past 10 yr this type of donation has fallen by approxima...