The Kazakh team of cardiac surgeons at the University Medical Center is working on creating a unique device for preserving organs outside the body. This can significantly improve the results of transplants, UMC reports.
As part of the project, specialists are developing technologies to preserve a beating heart, as well as "breathing" lungs and a functioning liver. In the future, it is planned to expand to the kidneys. The organ can be kept in a viable state for at least 24 hours.
It has been scientifically proven that the functions of the heart outside the body can be maintained for 29 hours with subsequent successful transplantation. Today, only one device - the American OCS system of TransMedics company allows you to safely and effectively maintain the viability of organs.
"The main difference between our device and the American one is that it implies longer-term support for an isolated organ, and unlike the American counterpart, our system provides for the treatment of an organ throughout the entire period of vital activity outside the body, and we can treat and evaluate this organ by performing ultrasound examination, intravascular examination of arteries, which nourish the heart, and thereby ensure its safety, so that the recipient receives the organ and has no risk of rejection or dysfunction of the transplant and, most importantly, is safe," said Timur Lesbekov, director of the Clinical Academic Department of Cardiac Surgery at the University Medical Center Corporate Foundation.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/dsm/press/news/details/894543