Partial Heart Transplantation

"Partial heart transplantation involves surgical replacement of the semilunar heart valve with a fresh donor graft. The surgical procedure (homograft valve replacement) is common and standard of care. The investigational aspect of this is using a freshly procured valve rather than a cryopreserved, cadaveric one and also the use of limited immunosuppression to help maintain the freshly procured valve as living tissue."

Fresh donor graft semilunar heart valve.