Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Heart transplantation" in English language version.
In the usual transplantation, the heart is stopped at the time of retrieval from the donor, then transported up to the operating room at a temperature of 4 degrees and then transplanted, still stopped. After surgery is performed, it is restarted in the recipient. With the new technique, referred to as totally beating heart transplantation, we took the organ from the donor without stopping it and put it into the ex vivo perfusion machine, in which the heart continued to beat and never stopped, even when 'we reimplanted it into the recipient.
In the usual transplantation, the heart is stopped at the time of retrieval from the donor, then transported up to the operating room at a temperature of 4 degrees and then transplanted, still stopped. After surgery is performed, it is restarted in the recipient. With the new technique, referred to as totally beating heart transplantation, we took the organ from the donor without stopping it and put it into the ex vivo perfusion machine, in which the heart continued to beat and never stopped, even when 'we reimplanted it into the recipient.