How We Preserved This Giant Human Heart

Ever wonder how we preserve our wet specimens? Collections Manager & Registrar
Lowell Flanders walks us through the process, step by step, of preserving and conserving a giant human heart, fresh from a heart transplant patient's chest!

Stay tuned for more videos on the donation process and acromegaly, the disease that made this heart so big!

*Please note that the first step in the preservation process, soaking the heart in formalin for 48 hours, was shortened to 24 hours due to time constraints.

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Video by Jonah Stern

Photographs were used with permission from Rob and his family.

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