ELi5 How do heart transplant reciprocates not die

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Do they have to take the heart out. I’m very confused

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They die for a short time just not biologically but clinically. Clinical death is when your heart stops, you can still recover from that. Biological death is when the nervous system damages beyond recovery. You wont return from that. After you are clinically dead for a few minutes you are biologically dead. But what really dies fast is the brain if you supply oxygen to the brain the patient wont technically die. The other parts of the body can get damaged but only after minutes of no blood circulation.

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