The cardiovascular system, also known to some as the circulatory system, consists of the heart, blood vessels, and blood. Learn more about it here.

Stories like these have emerged as the transplant system has increasingly turned to a type of organ removal called donation after circulatory death.

Critical organs like your brain, kidneys, liver and heart, plus all muscle tissue, are dependent on your circulatory system to function normally and survive.

Cardiac allotransplantation is warranted in children with end-stage heart failure or irreparable congenital heart disease. A dearth of organs for transplantation has contributed to long wait-list t ...

UCSF surgeons have performed the health system’s 20,000th solid organ transplant, making it just the third in the nation to reach that milestone.

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it’s undertaking an initiative to reform the country’s organ donation system after a federal investigation found that one ...

Shrimp possess a unique anatomical feature: their heart resides in their head, a surprising adaptation suited to their open circulatory system. This placement facilitates efficient fluid ...

George Newport, On the Respiratory Organs of the Common Leech (Hirudo officinalis, Linn.), and Their Connexions with the Circulatory System. [Abstract], Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the ...

Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves, but TransMedics is all about its “heart in a box”—and now, so is an FDA advisory panel, which voted in favor of agency approval for | Some ...