[Monitoring of myocardial gases and evaluation of the viability of the preserved heart].

For the evaluation of the viability of a nonfunctioning stored heart, a system of myocardial gases (pO2, pCO2) monitoring was developed and approved . It is shown that myocardial pCO2 monitoring is most informative in evaluation of viability of a stored heart. The character of this curve makes it possible to identify the duration of storage admissible in each concrete case as well as the loss of viability by the heart.