Fresh human cardiac tissue for translational research: A novel method of sampling deceased organ donors

JTCVS Tech. 2023 Apr 17:19:77-79. doi: 10.1016/j.xjtc.2023.03.020. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Varun Sharma^{1

2}, James A L Grant^{1

3}, Shivanand Gangahanumiah^{1

2}, Aashima Singh^{1

3}, Claire L Gordon^{4

5}, Fiona James^{4

5}, Rohit D'Costa^{6

7}, Graham Starkey⁸, Jaishankar Raman^{1

2

9}

¹ Department of Surgery, Austin Health, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Brian F. Buxton Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Aortic Surgery, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Medicine, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁶ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁷ Donatelife Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.
⁸ Liver Transplant Unit, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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