The organ has encountered many rebuildings over the years, but has been kept in remarkable condition.
If such a patient is put on a ventilator, the organs can be kept healthy and perfused with blood until they are needed.
For the next hour, the organ was kept busy removing the aftereffects of the disaster.
It also works to ensure that a person's reproductive organs are kept safe from disease and cancer with extensive testing services.
Except for kidneys, organs can't be kept outside a human body for long.
Then the other organs might be kept for a time and studied, but it was rare.
Without such a device an organ could be kept healthy for only a few days after it had reached maturity and been harvested.
Isolated living hearts and other organs have been kept alive indefinitely in serum-cases.
The vital organs were pushed to the side by the stake and therefore kept intact.
After the donor was brain dead, his organs were kept pumping by artificial means.