Patent ID: 8287580

Claim:
A method for prolongation of the viability of an organ in a deceased, donor body having a non-beating heart and blood conduits communicating with the organ to be transplanted, comprising: introducing, while the organ is in the donor body and while the blood conduits are in communication with the organ, a flow of a solution from outside the body into a first one of the blood conduits of the body in a position upstream of the organ and between a first barrier and a second barrier closing off the first blood conduit; leading a return flow including previously introduced quantities of the solution from a position in a second one of the blood conduits downstream of the organ to the outside of the body; during a flushing, non-recirculating phase, cooling the organ and discharging the return flow returned outside the body to a drain, the return flow including blood flushed out of the organ; subsequently, during a recirculation phase, at least oxygenating the solution returned from the body, and recirculating the returned solution from outside the body into the first blood conduit.