Successful transplants following cardiac death

More lives can be saved now that Israel has adopted technology to allow transplants from donors whose hearts have stopped beating. Previously, some religious authorities rejected brain-stem death, whilst cardiac death damaged vital organs making them unusable.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/New-Tech/Israels-first-successful-kidney-transplants-from-cardiac-death-donor-will-expand-supply-of-organs-372248

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