To provide additional data evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the OCS™ Heart System to preserve and assess donor hearts that do not meet current standard donor heart acceptance criteria (as identified above) for transplantation to potentially improve donor heart utilization for transplantation at a range of transplant centers in the U.S. and to permit patients and physicians access to the OCS Heart System while a PMA application is under preparation and review.
The OCS™ Heart System will be used to preserve and assess donor hearts that do not meet current standard donor heart acceptance criteria for transplantation in this continued access protocol.