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Dead hearts transplanted

The Guardian Online
In a world first, Australian surgeons have successfully transplanted “dead" hearts into patients at Sydney's St Vincent's hospital.
The procedure, using hearts that had stopped beating, has been described as a “paradigm shift' that will herald a major increase in the pool of hearts available for transplantation. It's predicted the breakthrough will save the lives of 30% more heart transplant patients.
Until now, transplant units have relied solely on still-beating donor hearts from braindead patients. But the team at St Vincent's Hospital heart lung transplant unit announced yesterday they had transplanted three heart failure patients using donor hearts that had stopped beating for 20 minutes.
Two of them have recovered well, while the third, who recently undertook the procedure, is still in intensive care.
Cardiologist and unit director Peter MacDonald said the donor hearts were housed in a portable console dubbed a “heart in a box".
Here they were submerged in a ground-breaking preservation solution jointly developed by the hospital and the Victor Chang cardiac research institute.
The hearts were then connected to a sterile circuit where they were kept beating and warm.
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Lou said the governance structure of the Bank would consist of three levels: Board of Governors, Board of Directors and the Management. All powers of the Bank will be vested in the Board of Governors which may delegate to the Board of Directors and the Management its powers as stipulated in the Articles of Agreement.
The Board of Directors will be nonresident initially and meet regularly to make key policy decisions. The Bank will develop an effective oversight mechanism to ensure the accountability of the Management. The president and senior management of the Bank will be selected through an open, inclusive, transparent and merit-based
process, the minister said.
He added the Bank was open and welcomed all countries that were committed to Asia's development and global economic development.
Lou said the consultation process of the AIIB followed the sequence of 'regional first and non-regional later". Countries that signed the MOU yesterday were all regional countries in Asia and would be the first batch of Prospective Founding Members.
Other countries can also become Prospective Founding Members and join the process of negotiating Articles of Agreement if they endorsed this MOU and be accepted by the existing Prospective Founding Members.
Original signatories of the AOA will
be the Founding Members of the Bank. Therefore, its membership will be not limited to countries that signed the MOU yesterday.
'AIIB is an open, inclusive institution. All countries that are committed to regional development in Asia and global economic development can join AIIB. We believe there will be more countries joining it in the future,” Lou said.
The United States opposed the formation of the bank, but the Asian Development Bank gave a cautious welcome to Friday's agreement and said it would 'consider appropriate collaboration' with the AIIB, reports German news agency DPA.
"Given Asia's huge infrastructure
funding needs, establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to provide additional resources for infrastructure investments is understandable," ADB President Takehiko Nakao said.
"It is vitally important that AIIB adopt international best practices in procurement and environmental and social safeguard standards on its projects and programmes."
Australia's Fairfax Media said US Secretary of State John Kerry had asked Prime Minister Tony Abbott not to take part in the AIIB.
But other Australian media quoted a government spokesman as saying no final decision on membership had been made.