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    Northwestern performs first heart transplant in Illinois using ‘heart-in-a-box’ device

    by Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune Nov 02, 2022 3 minutes
    Benjamin S. Bryner, associate director of heart transplantation, bottom, and Dr. Duc Thinh Pham, director of heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support, top, are shown performing a transplant using a heart donated after circulatory death. The surgery was the first DCD heart transplant in Illinois, performed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital on...

    For the first time in Illinois, surgeons have successfully taken a heart that stopped beating inside a patient and transplanted it into another person with the help of a new, science fictionlike device.

    Surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital announced Wednesday that they performed a heart transplant on Oct. 12 using a machine nicknamed “heart in a box.” It’s an advance that doctors hope will make more hearts available for transplant. About 3,400 people across the country are now waiting for heart

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