There are more candidates on the waitlist for a liver transplant than there are available organs, yet about half the time a ...

Despite making up half of the 64 million people living with heart failure, patients with this common form have no access to ...

Data showing the efficacy and safety of the transplantation of hearts obtained from donors after circulatory death as compared with hearts obtained from donors after brain death are limited. We ...

There are many different circulatory system diseases, all of which interrupt the complex process of distributing blood around the body. Examples include atherosclerosis, heart attack, and arrhythmia.

The cardiovascular system consists of the heart, blood vessels, and blood. Its primary function is to transport nutrients and oxygen-rich blood to all parts of the body and to carry deoxygenated blood ...