Arrested heart revitalised and transported for transplant

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 13 - A heart that had suffered cardiac arrest was revitalised for the first time in Italy Saturday and transported for a transplant in Turin.
    A cardiac arrest in a hospital far from the transplant site risked rendering the organs unusable.
    However, the collaboration of doctors at the hospital in Cuneo, where the death occurred, and the experience of colleagues at the Molinette Hospital of the City of Health in Turin, who had been trained in Cuneo, made it possible for the first time in Italy, it is reported, to revitalise the heart, which was kept alive until its arrival in the Piedmontese capital for the transplant.
    Identical work was done on the liver.
    In both cases, the organs were not kept on ice, but rather outside the body in perfusion machines. (ANSA).