Study tests if a warm heart makes a better transplant
Monday, August 29, 2011 - 01:00
in Health & Medicine
'Fresh is always better than frozen,' one optimistic recipient says after surgery at UCLA.Rob Evans, a 61-year-old social worker from Apache Junction, Ariz., got the good news on Father's Day: After 31/2 years, doctors had found him a heart and were preparing to bring it to UCLA, where he was being treated for a slow, steady decay of his cardiac muscle. Evans had been hospitalized at UCLA for six weeks.